Often the best part about ‘Tea Party’ (and any party for that manner), is the pre-drinks beforehand. You get all excited to go where you’re gonna end up eventually, you drink probably a bit more than you should to escape having to pay the UCSA drink prices and you have a solid chat with your mates because lord knows that's not happening in a mosh.
Now with the circumstances this year and ‘Tea Party’ being canceled, those pre-drinks turned into the main event. While I wasn’t sour at this idea, I also wasn’t sure how it’d work. I spent most of the day hopping from flat to flat and that ‘pres’ vibe was prevalent everywhere I landed. The classic pre-drinks staples were so evident; the overly competitive games of beer-pong, the music blasting, the deep yarns in the corner and of course the one bruiser who had pushed the boat out a bit too far. I was conflicted. These parties had the ‘pres’ energy we all love, but the anticipation of eventually moving on to the main event was also slithering in the background, leading a lot of people to call the day very anticlimactic. I found that this also led to a lot of people being in bed by 3pm and kick-ons consisting of Netflix binging. While it was a great day and a good way to celebrate the end of lectures, this hang up crept in the back of my mind and I couldn’t help to ponder what ‘pres’ meant to me anymore. What is ‘pres’ without the ‘mains’? What purpose do they really serve? I’m sure I’ll forget all about it next time I’m going somewhere and the ‘pres’ end up being better than the place I end up. Jeremy Wright
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