More stuff about CSOM

So I wanted to write this down before I forget...tonight was the last night of business week at our school. For those of you who don't know what business week is, its a week long event that the business school puts on each spring where they bring in speakers and provide free breakfast, lunch, and dinner to CSOM students. The week is always capped off with a bar event. The bar event is THE main attraction of business week. Everyone whose over 21 and lives on campus goes to the event. Each year the school provides us with four free drinks, some munchies, and lots of people. Think of it as homecoming for college students. So tonight I went to our bar event and it was amazing! I saw some really awesome friends who I haven't seen all semester because of work and lack of school. We all drank together and danced together. I'm highlighting all this to point out another difference between CSOM relationships and other college relationships. Everyone at the bar knew each other or were seperated by one degree of seperation. Because of the closeness of each person's relationship with the people in the bar, things that happen in a normal bar do not happen at CSOM events. Don't get me wrong, people still get drunk; but things such as guys coming on to girls never happen...and if it does I can garauntee that its 1. Out of jest or 2. the guy is not a CSOMer. The reason for the lack of a booty call is obvious: you do not want to face the embarassment of your actions at school the next week. Just like high school, social protocals still exsist and breaking such norms would be detrimental to your social career. All this to say, if you think high school culture disappears in college, just come to a bar event and my friend Susan call tell you that high school culture is alive and well in CSOM...the only difference is that, the dress code is alot looser, alcohol is a legal substance, and your circle of friends gets bigger and more eclectic.

So here's some pictures of our exciting night:

This is us at the beginning of the night, and before I had my 2nd and 3rd shot of a drink called a mellonball (like I said, free drinks curteosy of our school and our student service fees).

Here's a picture of us after a few drinks and before we busted out on the dance floor to burn off all out calories:

Just like the picture, our brains were getting a little fuzzy, but even with the fuzziness social protocals remained unchanged...but just like high school there also the wierdos:

And the wannabees:

Ahhh..you gotta love dances. (I have more pictures, but for those you will have to stay tuned to Facebook and see the rest of the scandalous photots :-)