Before I begin, I just want to say a HUGE welcome to the RD members of the Yale Class of 2012, and a special shout out to all my fellow international kids! Boola Boola! Hope you enjoy my blog, I write about everything from model UN, to ballroom dance competitions, to election monitoring during the past Kenyan presidential elections, to middle school themed dances. Kenya Take This? ;-p


Harkness Tower. This is a real photo my roomate Gabriele took from standing in our courtyard
Branford it the most aesthetically pleasing residential college (I think), and I like to tell myself that good looking buildings means good-looking people, and since I am in Branford, by the process of deductive reasoning, I am good looking :-)
2) Our Master, the woman/man responsible for your social welfare (he or she hosts Master's Teas with famous people - Howard Dean, Sophia Copolla, Barack Obama's legal counsel, Hanson..., hosts ski trips for $25.00, visits to the Opera...) is called S. Diddy, as in P. Diddy because he is just that cool.
3) Our college-wide t-shirt design's winning entry was "Squirrels Gone Wild", an ode to our college mascot
4) Rory Gilmore is in Branford College
5) My bestest friend, and roomate is in Branford. I am literally part of her family now, and her mom is our mom. I have clothes over at her house in Delaware and we spent the whole of Spring Break, all two glorious sunny weeks (thank you , thank you, thank you Yale Calendar makers for giving us 2 whole weeks + a weekend for SB) with the fam in Puerto Rico...

6) We have the most incredible tailgate at THE GAME, year after year...
7) We host Crushes and Chaperones
8)....
9)....
1000)....(you get the picture)
Okay, now back to Crushes and Chaperones (C n C)...Some of you may be familiar with the famous 80's Dance Party that happens at Yale - Safety Dance. But really, Safety Dance is going to be taken over by C n C. There is even a whole process about how to go about attending C n C:
1) Dress Appropriately

Aww....i miss having an awful fashion sense, ahhhh Middle School
For the ladies, that means bringing back those great yellow leggings, chunky white sneakers, ruffled skirts, pigtails and obscene amounts of blue eyeliner/eyeshadow. For example:

And this is after half of it came off because I was dancing so much...
For you dashing Yale gentlemen, that means "don't touch my ankle" jeans, and tucked in t-shirts. Chuckle Chuckle.
2) Prepare yourself for the masses, and Britney Spears (almost bought one of the "Save Britney" t-shirts the other day...hmmm...)

CROWDS!

Zack throughly enjoying Celine Dion's - "My Heart Will Go On"
4) Stay up the whole night after the Party sharing all your pre-college and post middle school memories
Add in a Pizza (or two, or three), and a milkshake from Yorkside that doesn't close until 4am, and your totally good to go until the sun rises on Sunday morning, and your reminded that yes, you go to Yale, and have one of the most spectacular views of Branford College from your bedroom window.

I <3 Branford

Crushes and Chaperones is without a doubt the BEST Yale College hosted party/social event/reason to procrastinate I have ever had, ever.
So I love going to class during the week (varying levels of love...Econometrics and I aren't particularly good friends right now...) but the weekend is the weekend i.e. time to chill out and procrastinate seriously about problem sets, essays, reading...As a self-professed dance-a-holic, my favorite weekend events involve dancing and lots of people. Now imagine a MASSIVE dance party, hits from the 90's that everyone (and their mom) knows the lyrics to and therefore sings out loud - I'm talking about good ol' Britney Spears, Spice Girls, BSB, and lots of awesomely awkward middle school memories...are you imagining? And smiling profusely? Class of 2012, that is Crushes and Chaperones, hosted by the best residential college at Yale - Branford.
Let me digress for a second here and take sometime to let you know why Branford College is the best residential college at Yale. Once I got in to Yale, it was soo painful to have to wait until the Summer to find out my residential college assignment, nonetheless, I was absolutely elated to become a Branfordian. Why?
1) I have buildings like this in my backyard, a.k.a. "The most beautiful courtyard in the whole of America" - Robert Frost
So I love going to class during the week (varying levels of love...Econometrics and I aren't particularly good friends right now...) but the weekend is the weekend i.e. time to chill out and procrastinate seriously about problem sets, essays, reading...As a self-professed dance-a-holic, my favorite weekend events involve dancing and lots of people. Now imagine a MASSIVE dance party, hits from the 90's that everyone (and their mom) knows the lyrics to and therefore sings out loud - I'm talking about good ol' Britney Spears, Spice Girls, BSB, and lots of awesomely awkward middle school memories...are you imagining? And smiling profusely? Class of 2012, that is Crushes and Chaperones, hosted by the best residential college at Yale - Branford.
Let me digress for a second here and take sometime to let you know why Branford College is the best residential college at Yale. Once I got in to Yale, it was soo painful to have to wait until the Summer to find out my residential college assignment, nonetheless, I was absolutely elated to become a Branfordian. Why?
1) I have buildings like this in my backyard, a.k.a. "The most beautiful courtyard in the whole of America" - Robert Frost
Harkness Tower. This is a real photo my roomate Gabriele took from standing in our courtyard
Branford it the most aesthetically pleasing residential college (I think), and I like to tell myself that good looking buildings means good-looking people, and since I am in Branford, by the process of deductive reasoning, I am good looking :-)
2) Our Master, the woman/man responsible for your social welfare (he or she hosts Master's Teas with famous people - Howard Dean, Sophia Copolla, Barack Obama's legal counsel, Hanson..., hosts ski trips for $25.00, visits to the Opera...) is called S. Diddy, as in P. Diddy because he is just that cool.
3) Our college-wide t-shirt design's winning entry was "Squirrels Gone Wild", an ode to our college mascot
4) Rory Gilmore is in Branford College
5) My bestest friend, and roomate is in Branford. I am literally part of her family now, and her mom is our mom. I have clothes over at her house in Delaware and we spent the whole of Spring Break, all two glorious sunny weeks (thank you , thank you, thank you Yale Calendar makers for giving us 2 whole weeks + a weekend for SB) with the fam in Puerto Rico...
Yay Puerto Rico!
6) We have the most incredible tailgate at THE GAME, year after year...
7) We host Crushes and Chaperones
8)....
9)....
1000)....(you get the picture)
Okay, now back to Crushes and Chaperones (C n C)...Some of you may be familiar with the famous 80's Dance Party that happens at Yale - Safety Dance. But really, Safety Dance is going to be taken over by C n C. There is even a whole process about how to go about attending C n C:
1) Dress Appropriately
Aww....i miss having an awful fashion sense, ahhhh Middle School
For the ladies, that means bringing back those great yellow leggings, chunky white sneakers, ruffled skirts, pigtails and obscene amounts of blue eyeliner/eyeshadow. For example:
And this is after half of it came off because I was dancing so much...
For you dashing Yale gentlemen, that means "don't touch my ankle" jeans, and tucked in t-shirts. Chuckle Chuckle.
2) Prepare yourself for the masses, and Britney Spears (almost bought one of the "Save Britney" t-shirts the other day...hmmm...)
CROWDS!
Crowd control at C n C is a must. With over 1000 students coming in and out of the the Branford Dining Hall, it gets really crazy sometimes. While your dressed like your in middle school, and your favorite 90's boy bands are blasting from the speakers, thank goodness you over all that "arms length away" dancing pose. Firstly, boys really aren't that intimidating/OMG-he-is-so-cute-a-could-s cream-right-now-giggle-giggle anymore, and secondly, there is just no space to be more than 6-inches away from anyone else.... So how crowded is crowded? This crowded.
I posted this particular link because I am a huge fan of "Crazy"
3) Practice using your vocal cords
The great thing about C n C is that you know all the words to every single song played, no question about it. These days, I have given up trying to listen to lyrics (spare "Apple Bottom jeans [jeans], boots with the furrrr [with the furrrr] that song is just much!). So all that's missing is your beautiful voice. Now I feel so blessed to be able to dance, play tennis, read a book, take a test...relatively well. But there are two things I am completely inept at: singing and drawing. Nonetheless, I belt it out anyway, like my friend Zack here.
The great thing about C n C is that you know all the words to every single song played, no question about it. These days, I have given up trying to listen to lyrics (spare "Apple Bottom jeans [jeans], boots with the furrrr [with the furrrr] that song is just much!). So all that's missing is your beautiful voice. Now I feel so blessed to be able to dance, play tennis, read a book, take a test...relatively well. But there are two things I am completely inept at: singing and drawing. Nonetheless, I belt it out anyway, like my friend Zack here.
Zack throughly enjoying Celine Dion's - "My Heart Will Go On"
4) Stay up the whole night after the Party sharing all your pre-college and post middle school memories
Add in a Pizza (or two, or three), and a milkshake from Yorkside that doesn't close until 4am, and your totally good to go until the sun rises on Sunday morning, and your reminded that yes, you go to Yale, and have one of the most spectacular views of Branford College from your bedroom window.
I <3 Branford
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