Professor Mugglestone and the Silent Disco

So, apparently the cool thing to do over here in the UK is the silent disco. The first thing I imagined when I heard that they would be organizing such an event for us was a bunch of badly dancing freshers moving about soundlessly (somehow this reminds me of Chelle's expressionless dancing) all dressed in matching bright pink (in true Pembroke Pride form). Not quite. Everyone was given headphones with two stations to listen to, so ostensibly about half of the crowd is most likely dancing to the same song as you and the other half to something else. What's really fun is to switch back and forth really fast (30 seconds of THRILLER and then 30 seconds of COTTON EYED JOE-- now THAT'S the way to dance!) or go around trying to convince as many as possible to switch to the same song as you (TWO!, no ONE!, no TWO!, and so on). Even better, take off your headphones and watch everyone else jumping about like idiots.

Also, there are these terrifying rumors that we as students must do loads of work here at Oxford. My first experience with this was meeting with my tutors Dr. Small and Prof. Mugglestone this morning. PAPERS DUE ALREADY NEXT WEEK (not only the paper, but for one class alone I'm expected to read David Copperfield and the relevant criticism before writing said 2000+ word paper). Terrifying, but true to form.