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Slipping on a tight-fitting black dress and pouring vodka into an empty gatorade container, freshman Aly Pearlman said that she is “totally stoked” for her upcoming Friday night ritual of crowding into a stranger’s dorm room full of empty vodka bottles.
“I can picture us now,” Pearlman told reporters. “Me, my eight best friends from my unit, and several dozen people I have never met and will probably never see again.”
Once the group arrives at the stranger’s living space, which Pearlman expects will be decorated with posters of John Belushi’s character in the 1978 film “Animal House” and a map of Westeros from the HBO series “Game Of Thrones,” they will head directly to a cleared out desk, where they will find three empty handles of low-quality alcohol.
“I was thinking about texting my friends who live next door to the party to see if they think it will be Karkov or Gordon’s vodka at the party, but I think I’ll let it be a surprise,” Pearlman said.
Pearlman said she plans to pick up one of the bottles to confirm it is indeed empty before filling up a red plastic cup with one of eight personal-size bottles of orange juice acquired from a campus eatery. Holding the plastic cup figures heavily into Pearlman’s plan to talk with a stranger who she cannot hear above the sound of loud music, along with nodding and emitting a noncommittal laugh to indicate easygoing agreement.
Though she’s excited for a full night of conversations consisting entirely of her potential major and what city she grew up, Pearlman said what she’s really looking forward to is the opportunity to dance to a collection of early-2000s pop hits.
“I will have listened to all of the songs in middle school,” Pearlman said.
At the end of the night, Pearlman told reporters she expects to regroup with the other students from her hall, where they will regale each other with boring stories from the different strangers’ rooms they visited before heading off to sleep in rooms full of uncomfortable wooden furniture.
