Room picks...

Planning...

... was a week ago today, and like all Room Picks Nights, it was filled with anxiety and excitement, disappointment and joy, and all emotions in between. With the posting of lottery list numbers that determined order of room picking and the maps of available rooms in the Hall seven days before the actual day, the calculations, crafting of plans and contingencies started in earnest, and it all come to an exciting conclusion in the Flounge. Gathering in the Flounge, lottery numbers were called, and then, selections were made in Fr. Ralph's apartment. After a selection was made, Patrick Campbell, like a military drill instructor, yelled out the room number that had been selected, and then, David Hale would mark off the selection on the map with a big "x"... eliciting no response at all or sometimes just the opposite- a great sigh of disappointment. The picking lasted a total of thirty minutes with everyone getting a room in Notre Dame's oldest and most storied hall- the one, the only- St. Edward's. On the evening, Joe Broderick, freshman and Bay Stater, or Massachusettsan, said, "It went well overall. My roommate and I had pretty high lottery numbers, so I think we ended up getting the last room available... But I was pleasantly surprised to learn it was one of the bigger rooms on that floor."

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... deal making...

... because it all a part of the night!