Snoring

“We can clear the entire lower floor of this boathouse to make room for air beds and mattresses”, says Stijn. “This year, we have guests sleeping all the way up into the kitchen and hallway. We started out with twelve students, but we’ve let in the last few people who’d made a request as well.”

The hosts think the kids are having a great time, despite the fact that they had to put up with a loudly snoring resident (we prefer not to mention names, but it was Lars) in their midst one night. “He hasn’t made it to his own bed even once this week”, says Rik (and the twenty plates he was supposed to wash are also still there – Ed.).

Kappa Mu Tau

None of the residents are Intro dads this year. However, the gentlemen have been very busy attending all the Thêta activities, if only to advertise tonight’s house party: the traditional Floors Party. “We call it Kappa Mu Tau and it is also known as the Tower of Power around here. The goal is to make it to the rooftop terrace. You get there by winning every game on every floor.” They’re all drinking games, like Flunkyball, Stairs and Keg stand. One of them involves half a cake. “If you lose a game, it’s no big deal, but you will have to play it again and again until you win. You especially don’t want to lose at that game where you have to eat half a cake. It happened to me once; and that was game over for me”, says Gustavo. “I didn’t reach the rooftop terrace that time”.

After an hour and a half, once the power dynamics between the forty society members and the intro kids have been established, Casa Nova (famous among the ladies for the Casa Nova grilled cheese sandwich that the men like to serve them at night after all the cafeterias have closed) opens its doors to all the Thêta members. They are expecting a hundred more guests and have stocked up on twenty crates of beer, sixty cans and a keg. “And that’s just the beer.”