oriel college ball...

Friday night was the Oriel Ball. It was the biggest and fanciest of the balls that we have attended this year. Oriel College is one of the oldest in Oxford, and the oldest colleges hold ‘commemoration balls’ about every three years.

Before heading to the college, we started the evening with dinner at a lovely Indian restaurant right on the river. The food was great, the setting lovely, and the conversation great. Also, it’s always quite fun to be the only people dressed up in black tie in the restaurants in town, it provokes quite a few looks and longing glances… ;)

After dinner we proceeded to the ball which was scheduled to take place from 8pm until 5am. We arrived about 10pm and the party was already hopping. There were about 800 people in attendance at the event, including about 60 MBAs. With so many classmates at the ball, it made for a very fun evening of running into people in the various areas that were set up around the college grounds.








As the crowd started to filter out in the early hours of the morning, it became clear that we would not all make it to the official survivors’ photo at 5am. Those of us who decided we were going to make it rallied together to keep each other motivated for the last two hours. By the time the security staff started seeing us all out at 5am, there were 13 MBAs remaining. It was a fun evening!