T-U-F-T-S

My fellow Jumbos will know that I was just singing the Tufts fight song. You will also know that no one actually knows any of the other words, except maybe "Hoorah!...something something...brown and blue!" Anyway.

So apparently I graduated college 5 years ago. What? Where has the time gone? Wasn't it just yesterday that I was living in my sorority house, thinking of witty AIM away messages, and occasionally even going to class?

This weekend I had the lovely opportunity to partake in class of OHHHHH FIVE reunion events. It was a particularly interesting time for me seeing as my business school graduation is tomorrow and my time here has only made me appreciate Tufts more. I mean, SO MUCH MORE. So while everyone was all "Congrats! You're graduating!" I was all "I LOVE AND MISS TUFTS SO MUCH IT HURTS."

Alumni weekend was a big boozy dance party nostalgic mess. Tufts classed it up in a major way and somehow managed to not ask us for money even once. We ate and drank and ran around the Tufts campus pointing out everything that changed since we left and took pictures by old dorm rooms. And then we drank some more, and then we laughed about how we showed up to every event just late enough so as to miss the a cappella performances, and I discovered that one of my friends was apparently the world's biggest fan of The Sing-Off because she knew every member of the Beelzebubs and which songs they sang on the show.

One excellent part was that Friday was the first day off that I had in almost 30 days, and I felt really weird being in a room with tons of caterers and not actually being one of them. And then I realized that even though the company I work for doesn't work at Tufts, I knew one of the bartenders from working at a few super huge events that required staff from multiple companies.

Another excellent part was when we finally realized that our 5 year reunion was NOT going to entail 2 full days of "Hey...you look familiar...we had a class together or..maybe were in some kind of group together or..something...right?" Though there certainly was some of that, for the most part people were just excited to see the people they actually knew, and we got to spend our time hugging and screaming and being excited to be around old friends instead of trying to reconnect with people with whom we never really connected in the first place.

Overall, it was a fabulous weekend that only reinforced to me how much my alma mater is better than yours (just kidding. Not really) and how much I wish I could still be in college. It also reinforced that I made the right decision in sticking around Boston instead of joining all you lovelies in Vegas (the whole "graduating tomorrow" thing kind of maybe also had a big part in that as my parents would probably not appreciate coming up to Boston today and having me be on a plane home).

For now, I am le tired. And maybe need to clean my apartment because my parents are coming and um, GRADUATION TOMORROW. Ack.