Social Life on K2

The girl’s side of the second floor in Knowles hall is pretty much silent by 11pm every night, including weekends. Before that people go to dinner in groups of two or three, or sometimes nearly the whole hall. Later many people go to some kind of school-sponsored event, a movie or club meeting, are playing in a ping-pong tourney in the basement, or are huddled in their room doing homework. A few people seem to spend all night studying in the study lounge. About half the hallway spend every waking moment together, and the other half lead their own lives. For some reasons there aren’t dramas in the hall, and floor snacks can turn into hour-long chats, catching up with people we haven’t talked to in a while.

At the beginning of the year everyone kept their door open almost constantly. Everyone seemed to be desperate to meet new people. People that weren’t as shy invited the more shy people to their rooms for movies. Slowly, bonds grew stronger. Most people noticed that a few people seemed to immediately become best friends. “Isn’t it so cool how they just clicked,” said one person over a game of Pictionary. Everyone agreed that it was, but then another girl pointed out how at that moment everyone else was wondering when they’d meet their “click friend.”

While now, more doors are closed more often; people are still very friendly on second floor, Knowles. You’ll always have someone to go to dinner with one night, or a group to go camping with all weekend. The social scene here can seem a bit cliquish at times, but under that surface are some genuinely friendly people.
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I know the assignment was to write about the social scene at UM in general, but that just seemed like too huge of a topic to tackle for me, and I saw that everyone else had written about parties and drinking which was also the only thing I could think of. So... I wrote about something I knew more about instead.