Scav Hunt!!
1:51 pm May 4th, 2009In just a couple of short hours, I’ll be on my way to Chicago for the world’s largest scavenger hunt — a University of Chicago tradition! It’s, er, intense. The item that’s gained most worldwide notoriety is probably the working nuclear reactor some students built in 1999, but there were plenty of exciting items during the years I participated in college (”get circumcised”; “the biggest goddamn sombrero we’ve ever seen”; “a graduate thesis written on napkins from a dining hall, signed off on by a thesis committee” — I also ended up going on a few of the intense road trips, including one year all the way to Princeton, NJ by way of Notre Dame, Oberlin, and the world’s largest general store).
Most of the teams are associated with student dorms, but now, some friends and acquaintances have started an alumni team (”GASH (Grad and Alumni Scav Hunt team): Those Meddling Adults”). As an alum, I’m proud to be a part of this! So who knows what I’ll be up to this weekend…
