So Rocky, our whole video today , about move-in day,
is about you. We're asking all the freshmen if they know
who you are, when you were born, how long you've been around,
and if you are the coolest mascot ever!
"I'm from Binghamton, New York. Just down south a little"
"Dover, Massachusetts" "We're from Alaska"
"Boston" "I'm from Bangladesh"
"I live five minutes away from here"
"I'm from Atlanta, Georgia" "Spokane, Washington"
"I'm from Chicago" "I'm from Hollis, New Hampshire"
"Houston, Texas" "Cherry Hill, New Jersey"
"I'm from Evanston, Illinois. So it's an eleven hour drive."
"I am from Mesa, Arizona"
I hope it was fun "Y'know, my family is here so it was half fun,"
half not fun"
"We were actually the Jackrabbits. Really fierce, we're dangerous"
"An Eagle." What was his name? "Iggy."
"It was a dragon." "It was a moose." "We were the warriors."
"A Silver Hawk" "Yeah, we had a Lion." "We were the Fenwick Friars"
"We were the Dunwiddie Wildcats" "We were the Tigers"
"We were the Panthers" "It was a Viking" "The Argonauts"
"The Titans" "It was a Wizard"
"It was like an Apple Core. It was really fancy though.
It was essentially an apple core that they peeled off. It's this big symbol now.
It's a complicated process."
"It's a bee"
"I know what he looks like, he's a bee isn't he?"
"He's a Yellow Jacket, he's not a bee"
"The Yellow Jackets" "Yes, a Yellow Jacket"
"A Yellow Jacket, right?" "Yeah, the Yellow Jacket"
"A Yellow Jacket, yeah" And his name? "I don't know his name though"
"I'm not in touch with my U of R trivia"
"I do not know that"
"No" Do you know his name? "No I don't"
"Busy bee?" "Sting-y?"
"Joe?" "Rodney" "Rex?"
"My parents, the alumni, say it's Buzz" "Was it Buzz or anything like that?"
"It's not Buzz, you guys lied"
"What is it?" "Rocky!" I think you might be the first one that
actually knew. "Really?" Yeah!
"What is it? Rocky!"
"Rocky, a Yellow Jacket"
"Oh! Rocky, that's what it is." "I like Rocky, that works."
"1960? I don't know."
"1896?" Take a stab, any year
"I'm going to take a guess, eighteen fifty?"
"1990s?"
"You've got to be smart to get into the U of R"
"1951" "1930"
"1955" A little further back. "1945" A little further back.
"1935" A little further back. "1925"
"1924" You're a year away! "No way!" 1925.
"1925, really?" "Wow"
"1925" Did you cheat?
"Either way, this a good place to be. But I brought plenty of Kleenex for today."
"I'm excited to live here. And I am excited to take all the classes that I am.
I like learning and I'm excited to learn here."
It's the beginning of a new era in everybody's life.
And I just hope that she has as much fun on the River Campus as I did."
This is the University of Rochester.