The Madness Within!
Every fall, Community Life and Conferences and Events partner up to put on a favorite of student events… Midnight Madness! The event is used as a fun and energetic way to introduce the student body to each year’s women’s’ and men’s’ basketball teams.
Last year, I was sadly unable to attend due to a conflict in my schedule; this year, I almost missed it again but was lucky at the last minute to get scheduled to work the event (a perk of working for Conferences and Events!). You see, each year there are hoops to jump through in order to get tickets to Midnight Madness. The event is so popular that Community Life has to be clever with how they keep the gym from overcrowding.
This year, in order to obtain your tickets for the event, you either had to attend a certain women’s volleyball game or men’s wrestling match last week, dressed up for Halloween. I couldn’t attend either, but boy do I wish I could’ve been a fly on the wall for that display!
The event begins late at night and only lasts about an hour, but there’s so much going on that there’s no chance at all of falling sleepy!
When I first entered the gym, I was shocked to discover the legitimate challenge of making it past the doorway… I was a couple minutes late clocking into my shift because it took me so long to navigate through the blinding fog and strobe lights being emitted for effect. Once inside, I was handed my “ticket,” which this year was a rubber bracelet which could be unhooked and, “voila!” it becomes a flash drive! How awesome is that?
The event proceeded with drifting fog, blasting music, dancing lights, 3-point shots and slam dunks, and hundreds of hyped up students all jumping and screaming in their “crazies” T-shirts!
The energy was invigorating – what an incredible, mad welcoming for this year’s teams!
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