One of the major highlights of moving to your own apartment in college is the ability to finally throw parties. Whether it’s your birthday, a friend’s birthday, or you just feel like celebrating that it’s the weekend, you finally have the option to do whatever you want. Although there isn’t an overwhelming amount of planning that goes into this, you and your roommates should probably make a game plan before the night of.
First of all you have to decide if you’re going to have a party or a pregame. A pregame is decidedly easier to put together since you will only be hosting people for a short amount of time. Parties on the other hand require bit more effort as your apartment has to sustain a large number of people for an extended period of time. For this article we have obviously decided to throw a party.
Now, create a Facebook event. There is nothing to get people excited for a party like a good event description. The funnier and more ridiculous, the better. Put throwbacks to strange events you have in common, music lyrics, or shout-outs to other people hosting the party and a positive response is guaranteed. If there’s no actual point to the party, this is where you make up an arbitrary reason.
Next is the invite list. Always a point of contention, did we invite too many people did we not invite enough? It’s always a major issue and I can tell you one thing: you definitely did not invite too many people. Parties have a natural flow; I guarantee you that no matter how popular you think you are all 179 people you invited are not going to show up at your house at the same time. Half of them will arrive early so they ~don’t miss the drinks~ and the other half will arrive ~fashionably late~. And anyway, there’s no party killer like no people at the party.
Of course, there is the ever looming question of alcohol. And the answer is go cheap and buy a Gatorade jug. It’s really all you need in life.
Last but not least: music! Themed playlists are always fun, especially for birthdays. However, if not sit down with your apartment and go through random Spotify playlists, I guarantee you will come up with a great playlist with strange and ratchet music sure to please the crowd.
If these tips don’t turn into a good party then all my parties must have sucked and we have a money back guarantee, but if you’ve met me you know that’s not true. So here’s some last minute tips and tricks before I sit back and wait for the Facebook invites to roll in: do NOT clean your house beforehand, it’s pointless; have a designated coat area or no one will leave with their coat; provide chips and salsa, people will like you more; and of course, have fun!
