So here at Vassar we have a strange system for freshmen. instead of having RAs for a hall, we have student fellows. A student fellow is a student who takes a group of freshmen under his or her wing for their first year while they learn the ropes of college. The big difference between a student fellow and an RA is that while an RA has diciplinary power over whoever's in his or her hall, student fellows get just kindof... ignor it. More often actually, the fellow is punished when they screw up. The big rule about being a student fellow is that you absolutely CAN NOT drink with your fellowies.

Now, I have a friend Izzy. she's one of the best gals I know. she decided to be a student fellow this year, and thus far she's been very good about observing the rules. If she's at a party and one of her freshmen show up, regardless of what's happening, she'll quietly step out. The only excption she's made thus far was for Kristin's birthday party (as freshmen we were all in the same fellow group... we're still pretty close). Unfortunately, kristin's party also happened to be the first time any of us got written up. 

As security comes in, everyone looks at each other, looks around for Izzy, and breaths a sigh of relief. If you get caught drinking with your freshmen as a student fellow, you get kicked out of housing. no questions asked. We were quite pleased that Izzy made it out in time. Security was very nice about the whole thing, told us that somebody called in a noise complaint, and sympathized with us that it was pretty bitchy to call security instead of knocking on the door and asking us to turn the music down. In fact, the report must have been pretty tame since none of us were ever contacted for a follow up. 

As soon as the guards left, we all breathed a sigh of relief and said "good god, I'm so glad Izzy left when she did... in fact, when did she leave?" That was when the closet door opened and Izzy slowly pops her head out. Total ninja! nobody saw her getting in! 

 Well, that's my story for the week. work's picking up, so I haven't had any opportuneties to do anything too crazy. Janusz, however, just got a new grinder, so I'm sure there will be some good stories coming up!