I always know when the Yellowhopper bus is going to be standing room only when I'm on my way home from the Krannert Center on a Friday night. I can tell before I even get to the bus. The telltale sign: orange tote bags typically accompanied by a parent (carry the bag) and a surly teenage boy or girl following behind.
Each college on campus has open house days for prospective students. Today's open house was the College of Engineering and the Beckman Institute. They host an open house every year, usually a week or so after "Unofficial St. Patrick's Day," which features an expo of exhibits open to the public that includes, "everything from a humanoid to driving and flight simulators, to shooting a basketball while wearing 'drunk' goggles!" It is, as I'm told, a blast.
In years past, sometimes "Unofficial" (as it is lovingly known) would fall on the same day as this open house. Visitors and prospective students were then treated to packs of drunk undergrads roaming the town and they often spent their time sidestepping puddles of green vomit and passed out kids. Fortunately a deal was struck with the bar owners so that this no longer happened and now the surly children and their parents with tote bags are free to roam campus with no fear of encountering an unsavory situation.
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