House Party Weekend was a Bucknell tradition for many years until it got banned three years ago for becoming too...ratchet, for lack of a better term. However, students at Bucknell decided this ban was more of a "guideline" than an actual rule, and the parties have continued ever since. In a weekend of dozens of frat parties, registers, and super Saturdays ("darty's" for those not in the Bucknell bubble), there are a few unmistakable signs on and around campus of the weekend's debauchery.
1. Music can be heard anywhere on campus
Most likely it's oldies and weird acoustic remixes of top 40s hits.
2. Girls are dressed like they're going to a festival
Even if it's 50 degrees and raining, girls are guaranteed to be wearing sundresses or some sort of hippie-esque garb
3. Guys have their own "uniform"
Depending on the frat, you can expect anything from Hawaiian shirts and basketball jerseys to shep shirts and chinos, but all will be wearing sperry's.
4. Dunkin's stock prices go up
The drive thru line for dunkin between ten and twelve on Saturday and Sunday mornings is horrendously long, as everyone on campus is trying to soak up the remaining alcohol in their system with bagels and XL coffee cups. Plus, the cups can later be used to dump an entire bottle of Andre into for supers.
5. The liquor store has been ravaged
All bottom shelf liquor is gone, the cheapest and most rancid of alcohols have been cleaned off the shelf, and there isn't a box of Franzia to be found for miles.
6. Cups. Everywhere.
Sidewalks, streets, backyards, mailboxes, every possible inch of available ground is covered in flimsy clear plastic cups. In your desperation to get more beer, try and pick up the least muddy cup.
7. Mud. Everywhere.
Speaking of mud, where does it all come from? Why is everything so muddy? Why is that girl covered head to toe in mud?
8. Domino's receives a crushing amount of orders.
Making your own food is complicated, moving is complicated. Cheesy bread is delicious, and it's only a phone call away. Just don't pass out before it arrives.
9. Natty Lite cans outnumber squirrels
They're hidden like easter eggs all around campus! See how man you can count!
10. One of your friend's will super a little too enthusiastically.
She won't be making it out later that night.
11. School dining facilities become a nightmare.
12. The Fracket roulette is worse than ever
With so many people going out, and so many of them confidently not wearing a jacket out and immediately regretting their decision, drunk kleptomaniacs are on the rise and 95 percent of the student population will not bring the same fracket home they went out with.
13. Flying Bison = life.
The need for Nacho tots rises exponentially during HPW.
14. Sunday is the day of the dead
Not a creature is stirring on campus, it looks like a deserted wasteland, the smell of stale natty and regret mix with something strange and unpleasant in the air...vomit?
15. No one looks fabulous anymore
If there was ever a day for sweatpants, groufits, glasses, and messy buns, it is the Sunday after house party weekend. It was a miracle that you could even get out of bed, getting dressed is expecting too much.
16. Your snap story feed is overwhelmingly long.
Everyone on campus felt the need to snap story their entire breakfast, pregame, super, dinner, pregame, going out, post game, and morning after experience.
17. Your dorm/apartment is messier than it's ever been.
Cleaning it seems pretty daunting too. Why are there so many clothes on the floor? Where is my left boot? When did I order a pepperoni pizza?
18. Bruises, mystery cuts, and a slightly painful sun tan are expected.
Your porcelain skin couldn't handle the weekend's activities.
19. You have a crushing amount of homework to do.
And no motivation to do it.
20. Still, it was a great HPW.
No ragrets...well....
Maybe just one letter.
