Just as soon as you've recovered from your hangover from The End comes the traditional, more official end-of-the-school-year-party, Summer Ball. Promoted weeks earlier before students are even considering to begin studying for their final exams up until the week of the event itself, this is the university's biggest, most expensive, most highly attended event of the year, and the only one with an 'enforced' dress code: semi-formal. Suits for men; all white, top hats and canes, and metallic appeared, and dresses for girls, many of which prove to be of the longest length you will see worn by an Essex girl.
Basically, it's an eleven-hour (5 p.m. to 4 a.m.) outdoor carnival/dance party. Attractions included four carnival rides, and a handful of game booths, casino tables, a hasheesh tent, several bar tables, most notably serving fishbowls of cocktails, two designated dance areas, food vendors, a 'curiosity shop' (really just a smaller version of the actual campus shop), and the piece de resistance, a silent dance party (apparently there were some noise complaints last year).
My personal highlight was going on a carnival ride for the first time in five years. Behold, the Meteor!
I only lasted until 1 a.m. before experiencing a combination of system overload and total body failure.
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