Ah, what a liberating tradition for women. The parallel at Northeastern would be that guys would like for this tradition to work all year, in all areas of the world. Sorry, guys, it s not really a convincing argument. Trying to get into a hotel on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras is like the dream of getting a decent housing lottery number so you can get one of those coveted West Village apartments. At a Mardi Gras bender, attempting to revise a good pick-up line so that the drunk girl you re hitting on won t realize your best friend just used the same line on her 10 minutes ago, is kind of like revising an English paper you wrote for a class last quarter, hoping your professor won t realize it s the same paper.
Clubs are open all night.
Waking up in a strange hotel and wondering if the figure next to you is really that hot girl you met at the bar the night before, or in fact a drag queen, gives you a sickening panicked feeling. This is not unlike the feeling of waking up on a Thursday afternoon right as you remember that your middler-year paper was due at 10 a.m. So whether in Boston or New Orleans, rest assured you can get your daily dose of ridiculous behavior. At least if you stay in Boston, you can use the money you would have blown on airfare and hotels to pay off your roommate when he takes incriminating photos of you with the older women you met on Lansdowne.