The origin of "SMAG"
I attended a women's college near Boston, MA. For a certain party on campus, you could expect the boys to roll in from all the Boston-area schools, but the MIT frats showed up in droves. This particular party required a student escort: that meant that at least ONE boy had to know at least ONE girl on campus to get into the party.
My friends and I were leaving our dorm for the party, when a girl down the hall asked if I could bring her friends to the party for her - she had to study, or didn't care to go, or was just over it. And before I knew it, 6 MIT boys were trailing us across campus to this party. It's worth noting that we were 5 or 6 Asian-Americans, and they were 5 Asian-Americans and 1 Latino dude. They stuck kind of close to us at the party, and we didn't try too hard to shake them. At the end of the night, we walked them all back to the Boston bus stop and got this gem of a phrase: SMAG.
We would soon learn that SMAG meant "small to medium asian girl" - and we learned this because the boys proudly announced that they had come to our school to go "SMAG hunting." Why they would tell this directly to a bunch of SMAGs is beyond me. I was kind of grossed out by the term at the time, but many years later I mentioned it to a friend of mine who loved it so much that we've taken to calling ourselves SMAGs officially for over 10 years. So here come all the SMAG Adventures!
My friends and I were leaving our dorm for the party, when a girl down the hall asked if I could bring her friends to the party for her - she had to study, or didn't care to go, or was just over it. And before I knew it, 6 MIT boys were trailing us across campus to this party. It's worth noting that we were 5 or 6 Asian-Americans, and they were 5 Asian-Americans and 1 Latino dude. They stuck kind of close to us at the party, and we didn't try too hard to shake them. At the end of the night, we walked them all back to the Boston bus stop and got this gem of a phrase: SMAG.
We would soon learn that SMAG meant "small to medium asian girl" - and we learned this because the boys proudly announced that they had come to our school to go "SMAG hunting." Why they would tell this directly to a bunch of SMAGs is beyond me. I was kind of grossed out by the term at the time, but many years later I mentioned it to a friend of mine who loved it so much that we've taken to calling ourselves SMAGs officially for over 10 years. So here come all the SMAG Adventures!
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