On Thursday, August 31st, my friends and I were all debating whether or not going to the New Student Loft Party was actually worth it. We knew that we had to go to an event for this blog post, but we all really wanted to just go home. We were eventually sold because we heard there was going to be free food, and we are always down for free food. Faria, Sadia, and I all have Pre Calculus together on Thursday afternoons, so we just left together afterwards. The class ended at four thirty five, so we had a little bit of time to kill until the New Student Loft Party at six o’clock. We decided to go to the library, at the sixth floor computer labs, to do some homework together until it was time to leave at around five forty five.
After we left the sixth floor of the library, we met up with my friend, Josslyn, and Michelle and her friend, Sarah, outside the Newman Vertical Campus Building to wait on line to enter the Multi Purpose Room. The line led us to a bunch of food set up in the hallway. We each got a cute little slider burger with some fries, dipping sauce, and some soda. We took our food into the Multi Purpose Room, and walked around aimlessly to try to find some space at a table. We eventually squeezed our way into a very small and crowded table to stand and eat our food. The burger was kind of cold, but still it was free food, so I was not complaining.
We looked around us to see that there were a lot of games set up, such as giant Jenga, giant checkers, giant chess, and giant Connect Four. There was a DJ playing old, but still good, music. There were cute fairy lights around the entire room, which you can see above us in the selfie attached. I remembered the room from Freshmen Orientation and a Campus Tour I went on, when there were a lot of tables set up, explaining Baruch’s many programs. However, the room was not nearly as crowded those two times as it was for this New Student Loft Party.
I did not think that many people were going to show up, but the entire room was packed. We were able to meet a lot of people, and make a lot of new friends. We learned that a lot of people were also there just for the sake of free food and to take a selfie for this blog post. Our selfie was taken right before I left. In the selfie, from left to right, is Josslyn, me, Michelle, Sadia, Sarah, and Faria. The selfie is really bad quality, but at least you can kind of see the cute lights they put up in the background above us.
Although I could not stay the entire time, I was still glad that we ended up deciding to go. Not only did I get to eat some free food, but I got to meet some new people as well.
Link to Selfie:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=11u9bwy&s=9#.Wb8PRtOGPVo