Do you suffer from homesickness? Are you leaving behind a beloved pet upon coming to college? No worries! Stockton University has decided that a miniscule goldfish is the proper replacement for a dog or a cat, and hundreds of students came to pick up their new dorm fish in the Campus Center!
All sarcasm aside, Stockton had to utilize a significant amount of consideration in order to even think of giving us this opportunity. Having a dorm pet made college living less lonely. It gave us simultaneous responsibility and partnership with an animal that – though it’s no dog – we have the opportunity to love. The event itself involved a massive tank filled with hundreds – maybe a thousand – goldfish. We got to catch the goldfish ourselves in a small net, and we were able to design the tanks however we wanted.
Through this we gained responsibility that only owning a pet would entail.