<p>My friend, who is UCLA '14 told me that it is a tradition for incoming students to be Bruin-tized with water from the Inverted Fountain during orientation. She also told me that there’s a legend saying students who have been Bruin-tized should not touch the water again until they graduate… lest they risk ending up spending an extra semester as an undergrad! :O</p>
<p>Is this true, and if so, how “into” the legend are you guys?</p>
<p>At orientation, my counselor said that it’s a pretty big tradition at UCLA.</p>
<p>I do not know a SINGLE UCLA student that has touched the water between their Bruintism and their graduation day.</p>
<p>I myself would never touch the water until I graduate.</p>
<p>i urinated in that fountain one night. true story.</p>
<p>I don’t take the legend seriously but I’m not exactly excited to touch sewer water.</p>
<p>I didn’t even want to touch the water the first time!</p>
<p>“I don’t take the legend seriously”</p>
<p>Well come on, who does? Who actually believes touching water will cause you to stay another quarter at UCLA? People just play along with it to keep up with school spirit and tradition.</p>
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<p>… hopefully not facing the camera trained on the fountain…</p>
<p>And yeah, its a pretty big tradition. I definitely never touched the water between orientation and graduation. During Spring quarter finals week, all the graduating students will be in the fountain after their last final, lounging around and enjoying… beverages of some sort (can’t seem to remember which ;))</p>
<p>^^^^^ LOL!</p>
<p>Ahh I see. 
So it would not be a good idea to fill a water gun with water from the fountain and threaten to squirt people (my friends) with it?</p>
<p>I don’t believe it at all. They tell you so many of these pointless myths during orientation you get confused with the real stuff. I don’t lean over to intentionally touch the water but I wont freak out if it touches me either</p>
<p>I haven’t touched it but I always thought it was some bs they made up after they told us all the other stories at orientation were just fake like sid3000 said. </p>
<p>Like he said, I don’t go out of my way to touch the water and I haven’t since orientation, but it’s not a big deal.</p>
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And where most people have their shame gland, you have an extra awesome gland instead. True story.</p>
<p>Is that it?</p>
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<p>More people need to read this. It’s obviously not real but you should play along with it in the name of school spirit and tradition.</p>
<p>BTW, some of the stuff they tell you on that Orientation tour is true.</p>
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<p>i usually have a hoodie that overshadows my face. when have you seen a drunk with his head held up?</p>
<p>My orientation counselor said you can get some weird venereal disease if you’re not careful with the water. I’m more scared of that than an extra semester.</p>
<p>^ is that her excuse to the significant other? :D</p>