Slope Day

Yup, tomorrow is Slope Day:

http://parallaxis.net/cornell/sd/
http://www.cornellreview.org/viewart.cgi?num=36
http://www.slopeday.cornell.edu

Despite the administration's best efforts, a whole lot of kids are going to be getting really, really drunk tomorrow.

Slope Day's a Cornell tradition where the entire school converges on a big slope to drink and celebrate the end of classes. By mid-afternoon the on-campus hospital is full of alcohol poisoning victims and other fun things like that.

Do you guys have any semi-official drinking holidays where you're from?

http://parallaxis.net/photos/v32/nor...e-view-v32.jpg

thats.... so... rad...

where is this college?

Ithaca, NY, about 4 hours away from NY State. The place is not rad at all for 8 months of the year, it's cold, and nasty. People work too hard, girls come to class in North face winter jackets and sweatclothes, math grad students commit suicide, stuff like that.

At some point in April, the sun comes out, and it gets really nice for about two weeks - all of our pent-up radness gets spent on one good day. The girls unleash 6 inch long shorts with "Cornell" printed on the ass and stuff like that. There are frats that go out onto the slope at 7am to start drinking, stuff like that.

Last Slope Day I drank a liter of Wild Turkey 100 proof. I'm going conservative tomorrow, though, just beer, Grolsch, although I'm starting early.

Sounds like a good excuse to get pissed and pass out in the school fountain.

They have to board up just about everything in sight, the libraries, stores, things like that.

Actually, before this year, Ithaca used to basically just ignore the 21-and-over law for drinking on Slope Day. For some reason, one day out of the year, the police wouldn't arrest anyone for underaged drinking - I had a picture of me with a 40oz shaking hands with a cop from 1999. I think that's pretty much over, though, now.

I slept for an entire day last year, too, after Slope Day - sleeping off the effects from about Friday 8pm until Saturday 11pm. Heheh, every once in a while I think coming here was worth it.

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Originally posted by Stone
Do you guys have any semi-official drinking holidays where you're from?

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As a matter of fact I do... Its called "look, the sun came up again".

I reccommend everyone celebrate it. Your liver will thank you.

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Originally posted by Stone

At some point in April, the sun comes out, and it gets really nice for about two weeks - all of our pent-up radness gets spent on one good day. The girls unleash 6 inch long shorts with "Cornell" printed on the ass and stuff like that. There are frats that go out onto the slope at 7am to start drinking, stuff like that.

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Ahh, I love those shorts. But this is Southern California - I see girls with those on in the middle of December. Heaven on Earth, I tell ya. Im not dissing your school Stone, but Im glad I got rejected from Cornell. :)

There was a big drinking day on campus here, but I think they canned it for next year. Boo-urns.

When I first saw this thread I immediatly thought of my Chinese friend Alex. Is that bad?

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Originally posted by Stone
math grad students commit suicide

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Ha! And they have their own bridge and everything...

Well, sounds like a grand old time. I know a few kids who plan to attend this fine school. I'll be sure to tell them about these festivities. :)

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Originally posted by OmniGear
Well, sounds like a grand old time. I know a few kids who plan to attend this fine school. I'll be sure to tell them about these festivities. :)

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If its as big a deal as it seems, Im sure they already know.

Anyway, have fun Stone. Tell me about it. Pour one out for your homies that ain't here.

Ever do anything like get drunk before class? I did it but once - downed six shots in the 30 minutes before class. By the time I got to the building, I was pretty noticeably intoxicated. I did fine in class though, had a quiz and everything. It was fucking great. I have to do that again...

I've smoked a blunt INSIDE of my school. I think that's pretty badass.

pssh, you obviously haven't been to my high school

Yeah, obviously...

I'm gonna start a tradition like that someday.... 'cept it will be just me and my friends and it will be everyday!!!

inside your school like a classroom? or a behind the gym type place?

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Originally posted by Box Drink
I'm gonna start a tradition like that someday.... 'cept it will be just me and my friends and it will be everyday!!!

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you.... bah, nevermind. im not even gonna say it.

Omnigear's school sucks!!

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Originally posted by Rhydant
you.... bah, nevermind. im not even gonna say it.

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you are retarded...

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Originally posted by Mr-K
When I first saw this thread I immediatly thought of my Chinese friend Alex. Is that bad?

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:lol: No Foul.

I saw this and asked myself "Slope Day? ... what the hell did the Chinese do now? They DO know that's a 'slur' don't they?"


... then again I wouldn't have known that myself if I weren't playing Dynasty Warriors 4 with my friend Gunther (remember Q-Tip, anyone?) who used that as his word of choice. "Fucking slopes *hack slash death*"

I think Akron U in ohio has something like this except its call MayDay... oh well, sounds like fun!

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Originally posted by OmniGear
I've smoked a blunt INSIDE of my school. I think that's pretty badass.

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That's nothing, I smoked a spliff inside my PRINCIPAL!

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Originally posted by 680x0
That's nothing, I smoked a spliff inside my PRINCIPAL!

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Heheh. I'm in the "I've been up for two hours and I'm not even drunk yet!" stage. SLOPE DAY!! 5 years after high school, and I'm almost done.

4th beer while I'm waiting for classes to start.

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Originally posted by Stone
The girls unleash 6 inch long shorts with "Cornell" printed on the ass and stuff like that.

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That is, quite possibly, one of the greatest lines I've ever seen here.

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Originally posted by 88mph
As a matter of fact I do... Its called "look, the sun came up again".

I reccommend everyone celebrate it. Your liver will thank you.

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:lol:

You are the fucking quotable alchoholic... you should write this shit down.

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Originally posted by Stone
Do you guys have any semi-official drinking holidays where you're from?

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Yeah, it's called a weekday.

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Originally posted by Rhydant
inside your school like a classroom? or a behind the gym type place?

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On a stairwell, but not during school hours. It was during a play that was going on after school (I was supposed to be backstage). There was still people walking around though, so we still coulda got caught. Yah, danger is my middle name!

My friends have actually taken a hit from a bowl during class (I wasn't there) thanks to the dumbest and most oblivious teacher on the planet. This lady's phone was actually ripped out of the wall so she couldn't call the dean anymore, and her gradebook was stolen, then put back with all different grades. And I'm pretty sure she did absolutely nothing about it. God, this lady was fucking DUMB.

i wish i had teachers like that. sure, its mean, but thats just morally. :D

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Originally posted by Box Drink
you are retarded...

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says the man who cant make a decent post to save his life.

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Originally posted by OmniGear
Yah, danger is my middle name!

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You should change your name to Dan. Dan Ger....

We have no drinking holidays. Unless you count Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and any other day we feel like it.

I'm around 24 or so right now. Taking an evening break. I haven't been full-on drunk yet.

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Originally posted by Jimmy Carter
That is, quite possibly, one of the greatest lines I've ever seen here.

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I'd take pictures for you if I could, man, it's spectacular.

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Originally posted by Stone
Yup, tomorrow is Slope Day:

http://parallaxis.net/cornell/sd/
http://www.cornellreview.org/viewart.cgi?num=36
http://www.slopeday.cornell.edu

Despite the administration's best efforts, a whole lot of kids are going to be getting really, really drunk tomorrow.

Slope Day's a Cornell tradition where the entire school converges on a big slope to drink and celebrate the end of classes. By mid-afternoon the on-campus hospital is full of alcohol poisoning victims and other fun things like that.

Do you guys have any semi-official drinking holidays where you're from?

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Ahh, Slope Day. How did it go? I remember you lived like two seconds from that hill.

Yea, I wanna hear how Slope Day went.

Oh, and I was thinking about it - the big football game is a good excuse to get all liquored up around here. I was so wasted at the game that well I only remember about two snaps. The game was so awful anyways it didnt even matter. I bought one of those itty-bitty $2 bottles of JD to smuggle into the stadium and I started drinking that when the beer I drank outside was done creeping in, it was fucking great.

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Originally posted by Stone
I'd take pictures for you if I could, man, it's spectacular.

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I thank you for your consideration. But it is nearing Summer in Minnesota... soon, I will be seeing the same things.

The first thing I thought of when I read "Slope Day" was the racial slur towards Asian people back in the day.

I'm a bad person.

PS: For those that don't know, they used to call Asian people "slopes" because they thought they had sloped foreheads or some such nonsense.

Woke up around 9am, drank a 6 pack of Grolsch before my first class at 11am. Class went pretty well. Went down onto the Slope - it was raining and kind of cold. Drank a $1 pint of Budweiser and a $1 4 oz plastic cup of red wine out on the Slope, purchased from the school. They were carding on the slope, catered only, no bringing-in of outside alcohol, which really killed the mood.

Went over to my ex-girlfriend's house, ate some food, drank about 6 pints of Ithaca Ale. Somewhere around the 3rd or 4th of those pints, I got a call from an interviewer from some high-end financial services place, which kind of sucks - it's a pretty high paying job, and I was kind of drunk while trying to set up an interview. Fuck it.

Went back to the slope, had another pint and cup of wine.

Went to a friend's house, sat around watching sports or something while drinking...I think Budweiser. I had about 5 or 6 cans.

Went to an Indian place, had far-too-hot Lamb Vindaloo. Went back to my place, watched a movie, drank about 7 or 8 more Grolsches, and I fell asleep (I think).

Woke up the next day with a mild but persistent hangover, spent about 4 hours in bed. Around noon I got up, since I was going to see Hamlet at 1. I started walking, made it about 20 steps away from the door, turned myself inside out (inevitable, I guess), and then went to the play. Four hours long, but not bad. Around 8 or 9pm the hangover finally went away.

The way you're supposed to do things, I guess. I've become kind of tired with the whole binge-drinking thing, so I figure this was a pretty good way to close it out.

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Originally posted by Stone
Last Slope Day I drank a liter of Wild Turkey 100 proof.

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Wow, I'm impressed that you're still alive. That's what I buy at bachelor paries and birthdays when I'm out to kill someone.

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I'm going conservative tomorrow, though, just beer, Grolsch

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Good stuff.

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Originally posted by Stone
Do you guys have any semi-official drinking holidays where you're from?

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Yeah. It's called 'Friday.' I never take part in it, though.

Hero:

01. Neither do I. Anymore (much like Stone I've grown weary of the binge drinking thing).
02. Its no big deal.
03. If you start whining your life is forfeit.
04. Continue.