Homecoming

What is/was/will be homecoming for you? A big football game? Some drinking? Fun? Well Dartmouth's homecoming certainly had all those important elements, but decided that it wasn't enough. We needed some crazier tradition, so what comes to mind? A bonfire the size of a small mansion, of course!

If not, then I will fill you in on the entire spectacle. For two days, freshmen build and decorate a bonfire that is designed by engineers not to fall while burning, then run around it their class number + 100. That means that as a freshman, I was supposed to run 115 laps around a bonfire so hot that if I stopped running the embers would have singed my shirt! Meanwhile, upperclassmen surround the fire egging on the freshman to touch the fire, which is illegal. Instead of trying to describe it, look for yourself below.