We have all experienced for ourselves or heard stories about the deliciously infamous, the legendarily beautiful, LDOC: the day you won’t remember but will never forget.
As Duke students, we live our lives by the motto “work hard, party hard.” However, LDOC is the one day when we can all say, “F*ck working hard, I’m just gonna party hard all d*mn day.” Profanity necessary. Give the averaged booked-all-morning-and-all-night Duke student an entire day to fulfill this brand new mantra, and she will not know what to do with herself. Many students will simply engage in the traditional (and normally frowned upon) practice of day drinking. Sometimes for more than 12 hours straight. It’s no wonder that on LDOC (heads up, freshman) our Duke Cards will only grant access to our own dorm or quad. It’s as if administration secretly anticipates that all of the simultaneously half-hung-over, half-drunk students will likely be trying to enter another dorm with the sole purpose of engaging in sexual behavior that we will, more likely than not, wish we had not engaged in come morning. If we even remember. So when a Duke employee shoos you away from another dorm (yes, they even sometimes stand by the door) and tells you to go drink some water, remember, it’s for the good of your sober-tomorrow self. Although it could be funsies for all you virgins out there to lose it on LDOC. More original than prom-night at least.
An excellent and “only at Duke” way for Dukies to party hard on this day would be to break the mold of maintaining a strict separation between our two signature lines of work, academia and partying, and instead merge the two, nerd-style. Calc raging, yo. Professors have been known to actually provide their own students with alcohol on this day – “in the spirit of LDOC”, as one professor termed it. So for LDOC, don’t you dare let that be coffee in your coffee cup. Or at least JUST coffee. If your professor isn’t cool enough to provide you and your 150-person lecture with handles upon handles of liquor, why not just bring some yourself? Especially fitting for this day, both the East and West convenience stores sell shot glasses, so just grab one on your way to class. Many students have been known to play drinking games in the back of Griffith Theater during econ lectures. Two of our very own Her Campus staffers even took shots in the bathroom before class, only to, mid-shot, confront their professor exiting a bathroom stall. Sober students might have freaked out. Thank goodness for drunken wittiness- they kindly offered their professor a shot. Talk about boss.
So come on, it’s LDOC. It’s like Vegas, pretty much. All those crazy things you’ve imagined doing but thought they were way too wild and too “state school” to try? Do them. That hottie in your neuro lecture you’ve been crushing on all semester? Take a shot with him, tell him he’s cute, and see what happens. Today you can get away with it, no regrets. And while you’re at it, ask B.O.B. to take a shot with you too. In case you were curious, Duke students have successfully gotten with visiting performers before, if that kind of thing might be of interest to you. Afraid of the dorm-cest/SLG-cest taboo? Pshh. Tab-who? It doesn’t exist on LDOC. And if you don’t remember it, it didn’t happen. As long as you make sure that you’re safe. Know your limits before you chemically alter your state of mind. Make sure to stick a condom somewhere on your person. Make sure you take that patrolling administrator’s advice seriously and down some water. And then make sure you follow it up with some Jack Daniels, or Jack what’s-his-face from neuro ;)
Stay safe and have fun!!!
<3 Lilith
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