So I had graduated and left Cleveland after the Summer 2001 semester, never to return. Or so I thought. Nothing ever quite works out the way one plans, and in May 2002 I was back in Cleveland and starting a new job that I have to this very day. What was my relationship with the fraternity like then ( Read more... )

When I first came by the house, one of the the first things I saw as I came up the sidewalk was a longstanding piece of Phi Kap culture. Some earlier generation of Phi Kaps had made a human height wooden cutout of a cheerful looking man with an oversized head painted in black and white, waving a card in his left hand. This was Phi Kap guy, who ( Read more... )

I'd graduated. Why did I live in the house one more summer? That's a long story.

After my co-op, I was less than enthused about working as a computer programmer. I'd spent much of my super senior year interviewing, which seemed to confirm my thoughts in that direction. That wasn't because the interviews had gone poorly, quite the contrary. I was ( Read more... )

I was one of eight brothers to graduate at the end of the Spring 2001 semester. This was the largest single graduating class we had while I was an active, which means it was clearly a good excuse for a party. This wasn't a public party a la Blackout, nor was it a dry party like the Detour party that kicked off this entire story. This was a private ( Read more... )

Entering my last semester of college, I needed exactly eight credits to graduate. 4 were in a required Computer Science class, ECES 338. The other four ended up being my second Spanish class in as many semesters. The two combined would get me to exactly the number of credits needed to graduate. Because of this, I opted to be a part-time student my ( Read more... )

Much like Formal was our spring special event, Retreat was our fall special event. Retreat was basically a fancy name for "the Phi Kaps go camping," or at least outdoors. We'd take a weekend and go somewhere other than Cleveland. I don't remember if this aligned with Fall Break or was just random.

In the Fall 1999 semester, we rented some cabins ( Read more... )

Fall 2000 was the start of my super senior year. After three semesters in the Studio with two different roommates, I moved back into the Oval Office. I was done being the Program Director at the radio station, and I didn't do any more theater. I kept working at CWRUPhone (with another pre-semester stint for NetCom), but my margin for error if I ( Read more... )

I covered at length the various bars we hung out in college. I thought it would be fun to do a corresponding summary of the restaurants we hit as well.

First, there were the late night places, briefly alluded to here. All of these required a car. In fact, aside from the Euclid Tavern and a few places in Little Italy, pretty much everything ( Read more... )

My second summer living in the house was much the same as the first.

- I continued working at CWRUPhone.
- I continued hitting the gym.
- I lived in the front of the Studio for the third semester in a row. Bovi lived in the back ( Read more... )

As I mentioned when I went through the offices, we had Formal Chair whose job was to organize a formal every spring. This event was not dissimilar from a high school prom or a wedding, with a sit down dinner and dancing. Most of the fraternities and sororities had some kind of formal. I'm not sure why they were always in the spring semester, unless ( Read more... )