Miami Student

Issue date: 11/13/07 Section: OpEd Page

By Katelyn Hawthorne

It's started. Senior year is well under way. I am searching for that perfect first job and trying to spend as much time with my friends as possible, and as I think back on my years in school, I have tried to remember the best times. There was dressing up for Halloween sophomore year, renting out a bar with my roommate for our 21st birthday party and of course spring break in the Bahamas.

But as I think back on these moments, I realize that none of them would have happened if I had not made the best decision of my college career-transferring from the University of Missouri-Columbia (Mizzou or MU to those of you from Missouri) to Miami University.

Believe me, transferring was one of the most difficult decisions I have ever made, but as it turns out, it was the best decision I could have made. Of course that was not how my friends saw it when I said the word transferring. And to Ohio? What could I have been thinking?

I was thinking that I needed a change. I wanted to go some place new and different; a place where I only knew a couple of people and would have to branch out, try new things and make new friends. But despite this desire, my year at Mizzou gave me some of the best memories of my college career.

Our dorm was a close-knit one. We were always out together, whether it was a house party or the infamous barn parties that packed hundreds of people into a barn with a full bar and stage, complete with bonfire in the backyard. We were that group of first-year students that went out 20 at a time and always made up a good chunk of the party.

By far, my best times were the prank wars that went on between the guys and some of the girls. These prank wars involved well thought out plans that sometimes took months to execute. We were a dedicated group that never missed a chance to stick it to someone else.

I am still proud to say that I was one of only two girls in the dorm to retaliate against the boys. After being boxed into our rooms, a feat that took the boys months of saving up old pizza boxes and staying up to all hours of the night to put together a solid wall of pizza boxes that was duct taped to our dorm doors preventing us from getting out in the morning, my friend Lauren and I were the only girls to create a retaliation prank that is still talked about.

We spent hours stringing together as many tampons as we could. Then, just as one boy was taking a shower and the other was being distracted in his room, we did it. We hung the tampons on the door to look like beads, and we covered the entire door and the surrounding walls with pads. Our pictures were taped next to the door so they knew just who had gotten

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