William Lopez Is The Coolest NYU Kid Around

Meet William Lopez. He’s a 21 year old New York University undergraduate who decided to make a fool out of himself during his graduation ceremony at Yankees Stadium by jumping over the right field wall and lunging towards the bases in order to round them successfully. He failed. But. What. A. Fucking. Hero.

“The students had been repeatedly advised . . . that they were strictly prohibited from being on the field,” said NYU spokesman John Beckman.
About three-quarters of the way through the ceremony, Lopez, wearing his gown and mortarboard, leaped over the right-field fence onto the field.
He sprinted across the outfield behind second base and made it to third, as many in the crowd, which also included 20,000 guests, cheered him on.

Lopez, a Yankee and Met fan, turned for home as stadium security and NYPD cops tackled him just feet from his goal.
“I was trying to make it to home plate,” Lopez told The Post after he was issued a summons for trespass. “I wanted to do a head-first dive. I almost made it, only 10 feet to go.”

Well that’s life, brah. Full of failure, which leads to destitution and your daily habits turning into a fight between surviving and repelling crack whores from sucking the excess coke off your nostrils when you sleep. It’s tough man. But kudos on attempting to be the coolest undergrad that ever lived.
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Image [NY Post]