by Rebecca Dance<\/p>\n
This Saturday is my last President\u2019s Ball. With a theme of \u201cGlitz & Glam\u201d, I\u2019m not sure there could be a more perfect theme for me. Anybody who knows me will know that I adore being sparkly, and I can\u2019t wait to make sure my outfit is absolutely perfect. However, shopping for that final dress was a little bit bittersweet – it\u2019s kind of the last time I can think of that I\u2019ll be shopping for a dress for an event like this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It feels like growing up: when I shop for clothes now I\u2019m not just thinking about whether or not I\u2019ll look good in that article of clothing. I have to think about whether or not what I\u2019m wearing would get me dress coded in middle school. So, shopping for a dress for Prez Ball felt like a kind of final moment. And it actually is.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This is my final Prez Ball. I\u2019ve only been to three, since the plague came down on us during my sophomore year and Roanoke College, rightly, decided that they didn\u2019t need to risk that massive contagion for a dance. I wish I\u2019d had the four experiences, but I know I\u2019m not alone across the country in knowing that I missed one year. That\u2019s okay though – all it does is encourage me to make sure that I am as glitzy as possible for this year. If I have to leave, I\u2019m going to do my best to go out with a bang.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It feels fitting to start the final downhill stretch of my undergraduate years with a party. Since Spring Break just passed, we\u2019re in the final stretch. The finish line is only <\/span>just <\/span><\/i>out of reach. So, on Saturday, I propose the following plan:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We dance, we sing, we laugh, and we spend the night with our friends. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Rebecca Dance This Saturday is my last President\u2019s Ball. With a theme of \u201cGlitz & Glam\u201d, I\u2019m not sure there could be a more perfect theme for me. Anybody who knows me will know that I adore being sparkly, and I can\u2019t wait to make sure my outfit is absolutely perfect. However, shopping for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":7164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-7163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-summer2019"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/48598.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}