It remains a mystery why NYU does not provide students with a party weekend. We are forced to travel to foreign lands to attend other university-organized spring weekends filled with concerts, day carnivals and debauchery with fellow classmates. Sorry, Program Board, but the gluttonous Strawberry Festival doesn’t count – it’s way too innocent.

But really, we’ve hardly dabbled in the newly-renovated Washington Square Park. It needs some shaking up, some vibrant energy from thousands of students at once, some more history!

Until then, students must feign the concept of becoming a frat bro/party girl at other colleges, which host annual springtime festivities devoid of city life. And on certain weekends at certain colleges, sometimes that lifestyle can be pretty fun. If you want to escape the city for one last weekend before finals week vacuums your soul, or if you want to celebrate the end of the semester with keg stands and blackouts, then call up your high school friends who go to these colleges and awkwardly ask to stay with them for their schools’ crazy party weekends. Read more…