My Alma Mater

I graduated from the the prettiest college ever. Really. The campus has won awards and stuff for being pretty. When I went there it was a college. Elon College. The town was Elon College. There was one bar in town, the Lighthouse Tavern. I was a bartender there for two years.

Now it's a university. Even the town changed it's name from Elon College to plain old Elon. And the Lighthouse Tavern is no longer the only bar in town. A Kappa Sig that was at Elon the same time I was, opened up a bar called...I think the Westside grill? or something like that. Now when the kids say, "I'm going to the bar tonight." They don't mean the Lighthouse.

I had a great time. I had such a great time it took me five years and one summer session to graduate. It was all those nights at the Lighthouse.

Many people find this following information amusing, and obvious...but I was a sorority girl. I was a Sigma Sigma Sigma. Our colors were purple, our flower the violet, our reputation ... drunk and slightly slutty. We were the party girls.

I had some great professors at Elon. It was a great little safe little bubble of a place to spend my late teens.

My college friends are the dearest people in my life. We stayed in touch and connected before this fandagled modern thing called email was all the rage. We went to everyone's weddings, kept coming back for homecoming, and visited each other often. And even now, eleven (yes eleven) years later, I miss them all.

some information about elon...

* a book title Harvard Schmarvard listed Elon as the number one alternative to an ivy league school

*US New & World Report ranked #5 among southern master's-level universities

* The Fiske Guide to Colleges ranks Elon one of 28 "best buy" private universities

* The Education Trust recognizes Elon for excellence in freshman retention and outstanding graduation rates.

* Princeton Review has recognized Elon for having one of the nation's most beautiful campuses. The wooded grounds have been designated a botanical garden.

* Newsweek-Kaplan named Elon the hottest college in the nation for student engagement in its 2006 guide