The Freshers Dinner and Ball

On Monday night, we (the new Magdalen graduate students, aka freshers) had our first formal dinner in the Hall. I hate to say it, but think Harry Potter and you're there. We had to dress "smartly" and wear our graduate gowns. We have a more formal attire known as "sub fusc", but that's really only for matriculation and graduation. In our assigned seats we enjoyed a nice formal dinner of salad, cold salmon, roast duck, green beans, potatoes and chocolate cake, washed down with both white and red wine.

At the beginning and end of the meal, the president of the college said a blessing in Latin. He made a nice speech about the diversity of our new class and if we were to embark on a world journey, we could visit our classmates in Iceland, Hong Kong, South Africa, Australia, and he even mentioned Indiana!

After the dinner, the professors went back to their offices and the students hit the club where we had our freshers ball. It was a really great time with three different bands and most of the graduates from Magdalen and some other colleges too.