A UofC tradition dating back to the 1960’s. On the last day of winter sem classes, students party all day and night while wearing bermuda shorts, cheesy floral shirts, sunglasses, bucket hats etc.
Yo let’s wake and bake for BSD!
“Saw some people shotgunning outside science theatre’s…what’s up with that?” “Dude it’s Bermuda shorts day, what do you expect?”
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”