TIPression

The post-TIP depression that consumes most TIPsters 344 days a year. Worst symptoms are when the TiPster realizes it has been a week since TiP, and they start having flashbacks of what the were doing exactly a week before, down to the minute. Also commonly referred to as TIPstalgia.

Upon departing TiP each year, a TiPster typically cries all the way home and huddles up in his/her room repeatedly refreshing Facebook and TiPWiki for new nostalgic entries. TiPression is really awful, but not so awful as...

4th Year TIPression

For many TIPsters, the shock of leaving TIP after their 4th year causes a potent, all-consuming TIPression not knowable to any 2nd-or-3rd-year. It is postulated that many TIPsters never really get over the trauma of post-4th-year TIPression, resulting in people like Peter Sloan.