If it’s a Kilpat party, you know it’s going to be crazy. Right? Well, maybe not, if Saturday night’s Project X party-themed party was anything to go by. Attendance was puny, the table broke, the speakers cut out, the decorations were almost non-existent, and the dance floor had the of energy of dogs huddling together for warmth. It seemed like everyone was constantly searching for an excuse to go somewhere, anywhere else—to dingles, to laundry rooms, or the underused buildings on the fringes of campus—in hopes of discovering something actually interesting to do. It wasn’t pathetic, or lame, exactly. Just a little dumb.
It was a night that raised a lot of questions. Like, is Dress actually a well-planned party, or has it just been coasting on its reputation for years now? Is starting your pregame at breakfast a practical decision when the party itself starts 12 hours later? Is Kilpat a party house, or a house that has parties and a Whatsapp group instead of a Discord server? Are any of their residents followed by celebrities on Instagram? Is there an excuse for having an outdoor party unless you are Canfield or possibly Dewey? And is Fels now the most consistent party house on Campus?
Not that their Friday Miami Beach party was all that great—the music remained tantalizingly close to becoming good for the duration of the night without ever crossing over—but the common room was packed, and it seemed like people at least weren’t sad to be there. Fels has undeniably mastered the art of building a party environment at this point. More than any other house, it feels genuinely communal—residents go in and out of their rooms all night and say hello to whoever is sitting on the couches in the hallway, and long after the music stops, people are still hanging around outside. No one has high expectations for Fels, but they’ve become a house you can rely on. They’ll always be there to take the nights that no one else claims, and they’ve yet to throw a true clunker. If Kilpat hates you, well, maybe Fels loves you.
Unlike Fels, Kilpat cleared out almost immediately after being self-shut-down, with everyone left turning to their friends and asking for secondary locations to go to. Perhaps we are watching a torch being passed, or are entering some alternate-universe Bennington College where Fels is a more reliable party house than Kilpat. Maybe we’re still getting in the groove of things, and the second Fels and Kilpat parties this term will be more telling.
On another note, with the old standby student-life speakers officially water-damaged and nonfunctional, each house now has to fend for themselves, with consistently disappointing results. Over the course of Saturday night, the already-quiet Kilpat speakers repeatedly cut out at inopportune moments, before the power was cut out entirely and the paltry, kind-of-shuffling crowd was plunged into darkness at 2 am. Fels wasn’t immune to this either (nor Canfield or Noyes last week) and it’s now become commonplace this term to be able to speak in a slightly-elevated inside voice and still be heard by your friends over the music. Will we ever leave parties with our ears ringing and heads genuinely hurting again, or in the foreseeable future? Well, watch this space. And if anyone has some large speakers they’re trying to get rid of, please let us know.
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