Dining In

Every night, we have the option of eating "in Hall" (think Great Hall in Harry Potter), and have the option of attending formal or informal hall. Informal hall means you show up in your jeans, scarf down your cafeteria food, and head back to the library. Formal hall means you put on nice clothes and your robes (it seems like 'gown' is the preferred term, so I'll switch to using that). It runs about an hour and you get a much better tasting three-course meal with nice cutlery and candlesticks. When those are your options, why on earth would you choose informal? The catch: everyone must stand when the president enters the hall and says some Latin, and then again when the president has finished her meal and says some Latin before leaving. I'm happy to put up with that.

Here's a photo from the first formal hall of the term: