Lining up outside the gate, each group of three to four girls shook hands with their group of Crespi counterparts. The Celts walked the Royals to their table as everyone exchanged names. As the freshmen sat down for dinner, the Louisville and Crespi ASBs walked around to help distill the shyness into conversation.

Despite the initial anxiety of meeting for the first time, the night was soon filled with laughter. 

“In my head [I thought] it would be a little more awkward than it was, it’s a little easier when you put yourself out there and talk to [the guys],” said Leyla Vanegas ’28.

After everyone had finished dinner and the Celts had cleaned up their tables, the freshmen headed to the football field for the second half of the evening: games. The first game was the coin flip, where each competitor chooses either heads or tails, and only the winners stay in the game. 

Next, the Celts and the Royals joined in a competitive tournament of rock paper scissors with a twist. In this version, called “body farkling,” the hunter shoots the bear, the bear eats the karate kid and the karate kid kills the hunter.

When the games were finished, the freshmen were free to leave, but many stayed around and chatted with friends, new and old.

As the evening came to a close, the class of 2028 walked away a little older and a little wiser. Elena Siegfriedt ’28 offered a piece of advice for future freshmen attending Frosh Box: