Midsession Fun at the Bowl-O-Rama

Midsession was really fun for me. I was stuck on campus with tons of work, but every night was a fun, relaxing break from work that had been promised. One would think that an entire week being stuck on the same campus with nothing to do would have been really boring. Lucky for us, the powers that be planned a whole bunch of activities to keep us occupied. They were nice enough to have planned musical performances, parties, and even trips to go bowling. However, after all the planning that went into making midsession a "rockin' good time," someone forgot to enact any of these plans.

The plans of what was going to happen during reading week were laid out in a pamphlet entitled "Midsession Happenings." The problem with "Midsession Happenings" is that most of them didn't happen.

For example, in "Midsession Happenings" is says that there should have been something called "Anything @ the Barn" at "9:00 PM" at "Vernon Place Social Center." (These are exact quotes, people!) When I went to "the Barn" that night, I found that "Anything @ the Barn" is this great activity where the entire room is completely dark and no one is in it. We should have more activities like that one.

This same pamphlet said, "Bowling @ Bowl-O-Rama (Shuttle will leave Mather Campus Center every hour on the hour until 12:00 am)." Being the naive freshman that I am, I assumed that what the flier meant was that there would be a bus, and it would be leaving from Mather every hour, and then it would go to a bowling alley. (What an idiot I am!) I guess what a college education teaches you is that pamphlets like this one actually mean that there will be no one at all outside of Mather for the entire night. Or, maybe the bus driver decided that just driving back and forth to the bowling alley was boring, so he took off to drive around Hartford. Maybe he just got lost.

So, intent on going bowling, my friends and I flagged down the next vehicle that we saw, which happened to be a campus safety van, and asked the driver exactly how we were going to get to the bowling alley. This was not a good idea, because in a recent top-secret meeting campus safety decided that the best thing to do for the safety of the campus was to stop giving anyone rides anywhere. You can't have a safe campus if people are free to leave whenever they feel like it. Of course, they never told anyone this decision. Instead, they decided that it would be best just to laugh at everyone when they got to tell him that no, they won't be giving him a ride to the bus station, and no, they didn't care that he is going to miss the bus, even if this is his last chance to make it home before his family moves to Kathmandu without him.

OK, so maybe midsession wasn't that fun. Maybe there wasn't that much to do. And maybe, next time we have Midsession, we should all plan a way to escape the campus. So, do whatever you can to make sure that next Midsession you will not be stuck here with nothing do to. And once you get out, if you see a bus driving around Hartford with a driver who seems to be lost, please direct him to the bowling alley.