Fun Day

This post is going to be slightly different than the others because I'm going to tell you right off the bat that this post is reality. Sometimes some stories are just too good not to tell in full, and this is one of these stories......

So...Fun Day...,

Definition: College day designated for laying on the grass, listening to music, hanging with friends, and getting publicly intoxicated ALL DAY.

Food

There are many different options for food. Some of it was fun food like cotton candy and snow cones with either blue or red syrup. Sounds delicious, I know. However, what everyone wants when lying down outside is barbecued food like hamburgers and hot dogs. No need to worry, they had barbecued food but they didn't have people cooking them who knew how to tell when they are done. This results in a barely warm hot dog with a freezing cold center, which was not appetizing at all. So overall, the food wasn't so great.

Free Stuff

At a certain point in the day, people began crowding around a table where free stuff was getting handed out. This included a pair of sunglasses and a cup. The cup was clearly for alcohol, which I considered odd due to the school providing them. The sunglasses said Fun Day on the sides and came in many different colors like blue, pink, and green. There were also many different kinds of bouncy castles that drunk people could go on. I know....already unstable drunks walking on an unstable surface...makes perfect sense to me! 

People

By far the best part of the day was the people. Almost every single person there was carrying some sort of jug with them filled with some sort of alcoholic beverage; lets just say, no one was being super inconspicuous. Many of the people were lying on the grass with their friends just having a good time. other people were listening to bands, jumping around, and dancing. There were also a select few who decided to participate in the Naked Run, which is where people run two laps around campus completely in the nude. All I have to say, is TRAUMATIZING!!!

This day was rather entertaining with people stumbling, falling, and slurring. It was the first time in a long time that people just sat outside all together enjoying life as opposed to sitting indoors on the computer. Sherry Turkle says that people are so absorbed in technology that they don't get to have alone time and just think. Well, Fun Day was one of the closest experiences to being separated from technology.

Although Fun Day was crazy and crowded with drunk people running around, it was one of the most entertaining and fun days I've had at college this year...despite the blistering sunburn :P