{"id":801,"date":"2013-09-30T16:36:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T20:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/admissions\/?p=801"},"modified":"2013-09-30T16:36:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T20:36:51","slug":"full-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/admissions\/?p=801","title":{"rendered":"Full Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I came to Vassar in the fall of 2010, I found myself panicking about one of the age-old traditions: Serenading.<\/p>\n

Of what I had read, it sounded high embarrassing. In short, during serenading, the Freshmen from each dorm “serenade” all of the Seniors with a pop song, lyrically edited so as to best praise the Seniors. I had a terrible voice. I had lots of qualms about performing for a Senior class that I did not know. Furthermore, how would the other Freshmen in my dorm respond to the event? Was this, essentially, hazing? Had I skipped out on Greek Life only to enter an Animal House<\/i>-esque PUBLIC HUMILIATION?<\/p>\n

The answer is, no.<\/p>\n

Serenading was the greatest day of my young Freshmen life. See delighted Freshmen and her two Lathrop pals below, as evidence.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday, the college cycle came full circle, and I experienced Serenading from the Senior perspective. As the Freshman babies sang their hearts out and performed epic dance routines, I felt a bittersweet sense of nostalgia. It’s fabulous for them, they have three years until they have to be on the other side, but for me- it’s a little too real.<\/p>\n

So instead of recognizing that I, unfortunately, have reached my ultimate year at Vassar- I pretended I was a Freshmen again, and danced with my old Lathrop dorm pals, sang along to Miley Cyrus and had a good ol’ (wrecking) ball of a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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