Frosh Week Zeitgeist so far.

It's wednesday night, and I've finally gotten home and I thought I'd do a little writeup of what's been going on in frosh week so far this year. I have photos, but haven't uploaded them yet. Photopost to come. After the relatively uneventful evenings on Friday and Saturday, most of sunday was spent preparing stuff for Meet EDCOM, Earn your hardhat, and Junk yard wars. Sunday night was the big leader party, that went off well, usually the other faculties hate us, and most especially EDCOM because they think we're a bunch of assholes, well we tried to show them otherwise, and seemed to work. Everyone got nice and smashed and I ended up crashing at about 2 am.

Woke up at 6:30 am on Monday, spent the day preparing for Junk Yard wars (which todd and I were somehow now running part of), and preparing signs and crap to put up around EDCOM head quarters. Monday night meeting, followed by EDCOM initiation, which I thankfully didn't have to undergo this year as I'm a returning EDCOM. I won't go into specifics, but it was fucking gross, although not as gross as mine last year I think. This was in no way followed by traditional EDCOM gets tanked out of their mind night, in which I no way proceded to get totalled. That was a very good evening, had some pleasant chats with some people, and made some new friends.

Tuesday:
Frosh week starts! I stayed up chatting (in no way drunk chatting) until 4 am, and got up at 6:30 again, so now i'm on 2.5 hrs of sleep. Sweet. Meet EDCOM (A spectacle of lights and sound in which we scare the living shit out of the frosh and lay down the rules for the week) went off pretty well, better than last year I think. When meet EDCOM was over, the frosh began earn your hardhat, in which they do different challenges that earn them their yellow hard hats for the week (Hardhats often attemptedly stolen by U of T). The things this week were AMAZING. So much better than previous years, and the frosh LOVED them:

- Get across Mud Pit thing.
- "Obstacle Course" which was really just and excuse to make a giant ass water slide on the side of a hill using a fire hose and hydrant.
- "How many frosh can you get in this beat up old 200$ car"?
(We got a deal on both of the cars from the dealer by agreeing to put his dealership name as a sponsor on the side. 100 bucks was budgeted for towing them over, the bill was 107, so we negotiated a 7 dollar discount by putting the towing company on too.)
- Wall climb, an old favorite
- Some form of "Leadership" thing which is an excuse to take the other frosh leaders and purple them and/or cover them in water and/or mud.

Next up was the Arial Photo, which is what I was working on, basically we get the frosh to all sit out in a bigass pattern on a field, and we take a class photo of them from the top of the math building. It's pretty slick this year, turned out really well.

Admin went ballistic on the FOC (The four guys that run engineering frosh week) at the FOC meeting that night because of the waterslide and mudpit, etc. which we weren't probably supposed to do. They went to town on them. The phrase "It causes me physical pain to see you as a FOC" was used. One of them was asked to resign. All four stood up, stripped off their red vests that designate them as FOC, and threw them down on the table, fully prepared to quit on the spot. The net effect of this would be essentially that frosh week would be over for all engineering students this year. Admin basically ate it, nobody got fired, and we kept going as usual. (I don't understand why they hate things the frosh enjoy so much). The evening was spent doing "nothing" and "nothing" kept me out until 4:30 am where I eventually crashed on Shubert's couch because we didn't have time to drive back to guelph, as we had to be on campus at 7, so another day where I got 1.5 hours of sleep.

That was yesterday, i'll elaborate more in my next post, plus what happened today, in glorious technicolor and surround sound. Maybe even photos.