Halloween ‘19: A Walking Felony
I told my friends all week - there are only two times a year that I’m down for anything.
Those days are Halloween and New Year’s Eve (A great DIY costume & sparkly outfits are my jam). Of course, Halloween ‘19 fell on a Thursday and we all had an 8 AM on Friday…but did that stop Section 7, or the rest of Harvard Law School?
No your Honor, IT 👏 DID 👏 NOT 👏
A WALKING FELONY
First of all, you already know who I dressed up as for Halloween. If you've ever seen Legally Blonde, Elle Woods gets invited to a Halloween bash and is told it's a costume party by the evil Vivian Kensington. So of course, Elle goes all out in an outrageous playboy bunny costume...and is the only pink one in the room.
Well, my section actually had a costume party, so of course I had to emulate my idol. Never again will I have a chance to truly embody Elle Woods, on Halloween, in her Halloween getup, as a real 1L at Harvard Law 🎀
(Also, the leggings were heckin comfy and the whole getup was like $20. Shout out to TJ Maxx, Forever 21, the craft store, and Tarina Crook for the Bruiser beanie baby!)
The law school itself rented a bar in downtown Boston and hosted a legitimate HLS Halloween Party - and it didn't start until TEN PM. Now, on a normal Thursday, you can catch me fast asleep at that time.
But this is Halloween, and there are no rules.
HARVARD HALLOWEEN
I'm happy to report Halloween started way before 10 PM on October 31. About ten people from the class coordinated to wear banana costumes to class (they were the Court of Appeels); I wore my bunny ears (not the entire costume, I do have a reputation to uphold); we had a Devil's Advocate, a couple of cats, and a Nationals Fan (although that may have just been his outfit from the previous night’s play-off game). I was extra motivated to wear the ears because my LegReg professor made a snarky comment about the military 'making me wear bunny ears' a few weeks back, and she laughed out loud when I walked in with the ears on.
Unfortunately, said bunny ears drew a lot of attention, so I got cold-called in both classes. C'est la vie.
THE NIGHT OF
My friends Liz & Glen (who were equally horrified the HLS party didn't start until 10 pm) hosted a pre-game at their apartment. It was an open invite to the whole section, but we kinda expected 20ish people to show.
As you can see, we were QUITE wrong.
We crammed like fifty people into those 500 square feet and had an absolute blast. Looking at this picture right now is honestly making me laugh so hard. Besides an Elle Woods and Warner (my friend Ben, who refused to don a costume but agreed to wear a sweater so he could say he was "Warner"), we had...
George Whore-well (my friend Dani, who threw on an Orwell costume w/mustache and copy of 1984, and added a "Wh" to her shirt
A Canadian goose (literally a sweatshirt that said "Canada" with a pic of a goose taped below it. AND Kaitlyn is actually from Canada, so...nice)
A representative from Average Joe's
Garth & Wayne (Party on Wayne 🤘)
JT, complete with frosted tips & shell necklace
A double-stuffed oreo (this was Liz & Glen, they were so cute)
Couple of lobster rolls (where does one even get a lobster claw headband??? Must investigate)
Piglet (pictured below - the Pinks in the room naturally bonded)
And to top off the night, one awful, awful bottle of Sea Ice Vodka. Not a costume - a $14, lowest-of-low-shelf, plastic handle of vodka. It was disgusting, and (I am not happy to report) totally gone before we trooped off to the bar.
THE AFTERMATH
Between the pregame and the bar scene, no one got home before 2 AM. The effects were seen about six hours later, where we were missing at least 15 out of the 80 people in our 8 AM class.
The best moment was fifteen minutes into the course, when the door swung open and Average Joe himself - the #1 consumer of Sea Ice - stumbled in wearing sunglasses and a ball cap pulled low. He flopped down, fist bumped the guy next to him, and proceeded to sit comatose for the entire class. Our professor, nice old Todd Rakoff, had no comment - he probably knew from experience that he can't expect anything from 1L idiots on the Friday after Halloween.
An accurate analysis, Professor. Party on Garth 🤘