The Graduate Dorm Council has $500 of our money to give away for dorm events every month. We suckered them into giving us half of that to throw a party on our floor.

Sure there was the food.

But more importantly, the keg.  And Miguel, our volunteer BAT team representative, who, by Harvard law, had to be there to serve beer to us wild and crazy grad students.

Being an around the world party, it was important that we have a variety of cultures present.

Matt was in charge of introducing the foreigners to the great American College tradition of beer pong.  (That's Notre Dame hat, by the way.)

Laura and Evan loosing to Matt.

Dana and Dan in our lounge.

The other major culture present was "Outer Space," organized by the physics people on our floor.  This is my contribution, a Theremin that plays different tones depending on how close your hand is to the aluminum "antenna."

When I decided to build one the night before around midnight, I had no idea how useful the vast resources of the world wide web would prove to be.

Back to the party.  Miriam, Jason our RA, and British Sarah, all smiling for me.  How cute.

Everybody from before, plus Emi -- the one responsible for getting all the money.  "We think we need $350 for food, drinks, costumes, decorations, etc....  I suppose we can go down to $250 if we ditch the costumes and decorations."

Finally, and most importantly, sticking with the theme of a multi-cultural experience, we Americans introduced British Sarah to the keg stand.

Notice that's our Resident Advisor holding one side.  Impressive showing for her first try -- 22 seconds with two "no I don't want to stop yet" shakings of her head.