The most important thing you will ever learn at Fairfield University is “it is not what you know, but who you know.” Networking is the name of the game. Fairfield is known for having a good Business School after all. From freshman year it becomes very clear that you better start making connections if you want to have any semblance of a social life. There is nothing worse then come Friday night having no idea where you are heading as you begin to pregame. Which means you need to find a way to be invited or get in without being invited.
Freshman year is spent trying to find connections for yourself or by friends who have them. People from the same high school as you, older brothers/sisters and cousins, or whatever other random connection you can find to someone who has a Beach or Town House should be kept as recent contacts. This is the easiest way to find yourself in a Beach House or in a Town House instead of roaming around Reef Road or attempting to navigate the Town Houses.
For those of you who are unable to find connections, better find a club that has upperclassmen in them. (That is the only reason that Alex ever joined The Mirror) Everybody knows that if you are going to a guys’ house it never hurts to have a few extra girls then guys to balance out the ratio. Very rarely will you walk into a party and not know anyone, so always look for a friend who is already at the party and begin to converse with them so you look like you belong at the party. Also, it is very hard to be kicked out of a house when you are on the beirut table so it is always a good thing to get your name on the list. It takes a lot for somebody to kick you out of there house mid-game.
Once you are inside a party, always find out who lives at the house and talk to them. Chances are if they like you and they are throwing a party again they will invite you back (which means you better give them a way to invite you back).
Don’t invite a crowd. If you manage to get into the party don’t invite all of your friends and their mothers. Down at The Beach the neighbors are already a big enough pain in the ass. All your friends flocking to the party you managed to get into will surely attract attention, which means the cops. Now because of great new enforcement polices, noise violations for one of the party throwers who was nice enough to give you free booze means an arrest.
Also the entire Facebook party invite is tricky. If the person is not in your recent texts or calls, it’s a bit trickier to be able to tell if you should go. Rule of thumb: if they simply invite everybody they are friends with, the party will be broken up by 11:30 p.m. and it is not worth the trip to The Beach.
Lastly, there is nothing worse then somebody who sits in the corner all night BBMing their friends in one hand and weakly fist pumping in the other, its like you’re trying to party but not really interested in the people there.
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