After surviving syllabus week or, as I fondly call it, syllabooze week, we start looking forward to future events. Bid day, fraternity rush, blacking out at 8 a.m., block and exchanges. But, above all, barn dance.
Barn dance is magical event where it is socially acceptable (kinda) to dress up in farmer and ‘Murica-themed apparel and start drinking hours before your bus pulls up to KAMS. You pray to the barn dance gods that your social chair was able to get the barn where Loretta is walking around with the most perfect chex-mix to ever exist. Before all of these shenanigans, and the stern talks about not losing the safety deposit on the bus (which happens 99% of the time), here is your list of necessary items.
‘Murica apparel. Tanks, fanny packs, bandanas, shorts, shoes. Anything you own with the American flag on it, you wear it.
ID.
Younger people, this goes for you. You will stumble off the bus from barn dance and a majority of your friends will want to run straight into KAMS. Do not be the one who has to run home for your ID.
Bota.
For those who have never seen one, here ya go: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29... You need one of these. This, especially, comes in handy for fraternity barn dances, where there usually isn’t a vendor. It holds up to almost six beers, if you go for the bigger one, or load it up with fireball. Either way, it’s a lot easier to sling over your shoulder than carrying around a milk gallon -- or subscribe to my theory and bring both.
Flasks. Yes, more than one. Highly discouraged by all risk managers across PHC, but highly necessary. If you are going all-out for barn dance, you are dropping money on pregame alcohol, dinner, vendors, alcohol at the bars after and, most likely, on drunk food for the walk back home. It's expensive. If you chose to be a daredevil, pack flasks in your cowboy boots, purses, or pockets so you don’t waste money on that overpriced vendor at barn dance and don’t completely annihilate your wallet.
The flannel.
It’s barn dance. Wear a flannel. Doesn’t matter if it clashes with your America clothes because when else are you going to wear it? You’ll thank me later when your barn dance is in late October and the temperature is in the single digits.
Happy barn dancing!
