Happy Mason Day

[99 Patriot]

This seems like a good opportunity for people to share memories of Mason Days past.

I saw yesterday they have a tilt-a-whirl, and several other rides as part of the festivities. Not sure that's a great idea.

Hope the weather cooperates and kids have a good time today. Seems like it would be a good occasion to try and impress a recruit.

 

[Five Two]

not my favorite memory- but Mason Day senior year, I get back to the apartment in the afternoon ready to get going and my roommate has passed out already. I've never really recovered from the trauma of not being able to celebrate my final Mason Day in style with him.

 

[Vurbel]

1) The Roots
2) The Roots
3) The Roots

 

[Patriotsince81]

Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts on the library steps and beer trucks on the quad. Those were the days!

 

[MasonSAE4]

In 2014 I had a Four Loko and then rode the tilt-a-whirl. It was still a more pleasurable experience than watching Hewitts team that year.

 

[GMUSig03]

Keg room on the 3rd floor of Wilson, brought up in Mason hockey bag.

MDBCD - Mason Day Beer Concealing Device (ie - two freezer bags ductaped to chest, filled with beer from said keg, with straws coming up through the front of my shirt neck hole). I had two friends get busted by undercovers on the quad while standing on each side of me for drinking out of camel backs. My MDBCD went unnoticed.

 

[Quentin Daniels]

1) The Roots
2) The Roots
3) The Roots

2 Skinnee J's

 

[JPgmuswim]

I remember carrying a keg up 2 floors to my suite in commonwealth. I remember going from room to room waking people up at 9am with a bottle of vodka and a shot glass. Mason Day was an all day celebration back then.

My first Mason day was actually when I was a senior in high school. I want to say that lineup had jimmies chicken shack 2 skinnee J's and the Roots.
I felt like every year after that the bands got worse and worse and the alcohol restrictions got more and more enforced.
Who played this year?

 

[Patriot Lawdog]

I remember carrying a keg up 2 floors to my suite in commonwealth. I remember going from room to room waking people up at 9am with a bottle of vodka and a shot glass. Mason Day was an all day celebration back then.

My first Mason day was actually when I was a senior in high school. I want to say that lineup had jimmies chicken shack 2 skinnee J's and the Roots.
I felt like every year after that the bands got worse and worse and the alcohol restrictions got more and more enforced.
Who played this year?

100% correct. That was my sophomore year and it was by far the best one. Weather was perfect. Cops were reasonable, etc. The day after the student apartments (where I lived) looked like a tornado had hit it.

 

[BandWagon18]

MDBCD - Mason Day Beer Concealing Device (ie - two freezer bags ductaped to chest, filled with beer from said keg, with straws coming up through the front of my shirt neck hole)

Where innovation is tradition

 

[MasonSAE4]

I remember carrying a keg up 2 floors to my suite in commonwealth. I remember going from room to room waking people up at 9am with a bottle of vodka and a shot glass. Mason Day was an all day celebration back then.

My first Mason day was actually when I was a senior in high school. I want to say that lineup had jimmies chicken shack 2 skinnee J's and the Roots.
I felt like every year after that the bands got worse and worse and the alcohol restrictions got more and more enforced.
Who played this year?

Juicy J

 

[GMUSig03]

100% correct. That was my sophomore year and it was by far the best one. Weather was perfect. Cops were reasonable, etc. The day after the student apartments (where I lived) looked like a tornado had hit it.

Agreed, I believe it was all down hill after that year as the Mason admin saw how much fun the students had and said whoa, slow down there. Each year after they make incremental changes to make it less and less fun.

 

[GiantKiller_Co]

Agreed, I believe it was all down hill after that year as the Mason admin saw how much fun the students had and said whoa, slow down there. Each year after they make incremental changes to make it less and less fun.

Pre-gaming and airplane bottles solve this issue. There was a lot of but Mason PD was nice enough to not intervene. An overall improvement from last year's Jesse "Washed Up" McCartney and was more fun than previous ones too. A step in the right direction.

 

[CHRISTOPHER JAMES JOLLAY]

I could be wrong, but I think they moved to downplay things after Run DMC circa 1999.

No effort to hide anything that year, full liquor bottles in plain view on the quad. Remember looking back from near the stage and seeing George Evans dancing with one...

After that it was downhill...roped off areas and police busting campus parties and people smuggling drinks to the show. Was that the year some asshole fell off a balcony in the apartments as well?

 

[Patriot Lawdog]

I could be wrong, but I think they moved to downplay things after Run DMC circa 1999.

No effort to hide anything that year, full liquor bottles in plain view on the quad. Remember looking back from near the stage and seeing George Evans dancing with one...

After that it was downhill...roped off areas and police busting campus parties and people smuggling drinks to the show. Was that the year some a**hole fell off a balcony in the apartments as well?

Jollay, I thought that was Spring of 98. I just remember seeing a couple of people with busted up heads and thinking it was just a part of the deal. I do believe that was the same year that idiot fell off a balcony in the apartments. One of the things I remember most about that year was how long everything lasted. It seemed like it was a solid 14 hours or so.

 

[Pikapppatri8]

I recall the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and afternoon of bourbon and coke, and a hot steamy hump session with a Gamma Phi Beta in the Mason Townhouses and then violent barf session after quickly downing some jerk chicken.

 

[TweederGMU]

The Keg on 3rd floor Wilson in our dorm room was me and our suite mates idea. My entire floor were lookouts for RA's and Cops as it rode shotgun in my Jeep Wrangler. I was driving around Patriot Circle with a Keg riding shotgun with not a care in the world. Ahhhh those were the days. This was pre-cell phone days keep in mind. And the plan went off like a charm. We seriously had 8-10 guys as lookouts on every corner of the stair well around Wilson and Eisenhower. My entire 3rd floor of Wilson were all degenerates. We caused the most damage to the everything on our floor: rooms, furniture, bathrooms, etc. in the history of Mason housing. We had a meeting at the end of the year with the Director of Housing pretty much lecturing our entire floor that all of us would be receiving a bill in the mail for around $8k worth of damages throughout the year. Buuuuut that check never came to my parents nor did I ever get charged. Haha.... Suckas.

Run DMC was the best.

I woke up the next morning in one of the hottest Aphi's beds in the student apartments as I noticed a condom stuck to her thong on the floor. I kissed her goodbye and rolled out still drunk.

After the guy who fell off the student apartments ledge and busted his head open was the downfall. That was either 2000 or 2001. I knew the kid kinda.

Common, 2 Skinnee and Jimmys Chicken Shack were awesome too.

 

[Vurbel]

Jollay, I thought that was Spring of 98. I just remember seeing a couple of people with busted up heads and thinking it was just a part of the deal. I do believe that was the same year that idiot fell off a balcony in the apartments. One of the things I remember most about that year was how long everything lasted. It seemed like it was a solid 14 hours or so.

I'm sure Roots were '98. I think Run-DMC was 99. Somewhere in there were the Black Eyed Peas. Black Sheep were fall, 92. I can't keep Mason Day and Patriot Day straight, though.

 

[Bricker]

I think Run-DMC was 99..

Spring 2000.

 

[EXpatriot13]

I recall the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and afternoon of bourbon and coke, and a hot steamy hump session with a Gamma Phi Beta in the Mason Townhouses and then violent barf session after quickly downing some jerk chicken.

LOL. You're an inspiration.