Kickball Domination

If you’re following any of the Admission deans’ or interviewers’ wepages, I’m sure you’ve heard about the kickball challenge. Every year the summer interviewers challenge the deans to a kickball game through some creative, trash-talking invitation.

After our crazy challenge we played the game and lost miserably. The deans beat us 7-1 but at least we had fun trying I guess?!? Seriously though it was a blast. We used folders for bases and walked in with matching intern tshirts and intimidation music. There was also some potential cheating on behalf of the deans, probably performance enhancing drugs to improve their kickball performance at such old ages, but at least we had the best uniforms and style. We also gave lots of intimidating stares and warm ups like boxilidies and distance gazes over the horizon.Nevertheless after 6 innings the deans killed us. We played one more game for fun and scored one run thanks to Asst. Provost Granger’s two year old daughter and had fun cheering against the dean who was up to kick.

After being slaughtered by our older counterparts we all decided to have fun at the Green Leafe for dinner and a drink. I’m pretty sure they hated us for walking in with a group of 25 sweaty, loud people itching to relax and eat. For two hours we sat laughing and talking, pretty much creating a huge scene for all the people trying to enjoy their evenings. We talked about our jobs and the dean’s interests, recent 21st birthdays, school, sports, politics…you name it we discussed it or joked about it. More than likely we joked about it-the conversation rarely was completely serious. We ordered tons of appetizers that deans and interns devoured in minutes then ordered more since the food still hadn’t come out yet. Basically we just had a big party with the people who made our acceptance decisions and the guy who signed our acceptance letter-pretty cool phenomenon/crazy fun at the same time.No matter what group or office you get involved in at the College you’re going to have the same opportunity to jump into fun situations with administration and professors. Whether it’s going out for coffee or grabbing a bite, the faculty and administrators of the College are going to be there chatting and hanging out with students.