May 3, 2001
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OUT ON THE SLOPE
This friday marks the end of classes for the academic year. to celebrate this, my school has an annual ritual or rite called Slope Day, where everyone goes out on this big slope in the middle of campus and gets sloshed
yep.as you can imagine, this is not a pretty site
:100s and 1000s of college students getting tipsy and then stone drunk on a hot spring day. there is streaking and lots of drunken hooking up involved......all rather amusing actually. if you are stone sober and come across this event, it is really a disgusting thing. my professor tells me this all the time, and i know that by the time i am his age, i'll be of the same mindset. the trick to it all though, so i have discovered, is to not only get tipsy enough such that the smells and sights do not repulse you, but also to spend it in good company with good friends such that the tipsiness is confined, at least in your perspective, to your one little group. i didn't do this in freshman year, so Slope Day was gaaaaahhhhhh.
But Slope Day is fun, otherwise why would we continue this inane tradition year after year? - you can make your fun out of anything, provided you know how to. Slope Day has to be done in a group. drinking is no fun by yourself - it is downright miserable. the main and original purpose of alcohol consumption is to relax oneself and therefore facilitate social interactions. getting stone drunk, whether to forget stuff or because you think it is cool really doesn't work. you feel physically horrible after that. believe me....i was definitely not miss universe material the day after i got drunk.
Slope Day is about having good fun with friends - we go through a tonne of homework in the academic year and bitch about classes so much that it this last day of classes becomes the collective steam valve. not that it justifies this binge-drinking, but then, it is fun for having fun's sake, something that we rarely get to do as this world becomes increasingly fast-paced. it is a sophomoric (sophomore, Greek: sophos = wise, moron = fool) event of epic proportions, and like its definition, it is a crazy thing to do while i am young and able to make mistakes, recover easily and learn from them. but even then, when i do go out to make mistakes, especially in this case, i am glad to have my friends with me - it's so much better to trust your well-being to people who care for me
, in the same way i do for them.
CHEERS!
Comments (5)
Well, thank goodness you are going to get some time to rest, and what better way to start than to have a great time with your friends. Have a blast and we will look forward to hearing about it, and seeing the incriminating pictures as soon as you have them!
I hope you have a great time with your friends and that they all are wise enough to stop with the drink that relaxes them.
Thank you for the lovely compliment on the last installment of the Duck Tale.
Take care...{v}
You go! Friends and fun and relaxation, along with a colorfully written blog -- as Martha Stewart would say, "It's a good thing."
Enjoy!
Hehehe, Enjoy yourself and hope you have an AWESOME slooshing *ROFL*
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