2010 Duke Graduate Student Campout, Part 2: We’re not worthy!
By Randy Zwitch - October 10th, 2010  Category: CCMBA 2010D| Fun
As soon as the first checkout was completed, and darkness fell on the Blue Zone, it was pretty clear that the CCMBA setup was just a little bit less than what other tailgaters brought to the party. For sure, the CCMBA campers didn’t quite have the same opportunity to plan, given most of us flew into Durham and we all spent two weeks in class. While we did have an RV as a central command post (big thanks to Pat S. for setting that up!), but that’s not what other Dukies were thinking.
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Like the engineers parked next to us. Not content to spend the weekend playing beer games and doing other tailgating fun…these guys brought a whole multimedia setup! As neighbors, it was a bit slow watching the Halo tournament that was going on, but once they started showing college football on Saturday, we started gathering a ton of passers-by just hanging out.
To our other side of the RV, we had a group of Asian grad students who went all out, bringing in a catered food setup complete with a deep fryer and sushi! Within viewing distance of the RV, there were people deep frying turkeys, charcoal grills, the aforementioned sushi…it was clear that there was a ton of planning that went into some of these campsites.
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2010 Duke Graduate Student Campout, Part 1
By Randy Zwitch - October 7th, 2010 Category: CCMBA 2010D| Fun
It’s taken me 4-5 days to get around to writing about the campout, which can only mean one thing: It was one hell of a party!
The graduate student campout is a shortened-down version of the “Krzyzewskiville” tradition, where Duke undergrads campout for ridiculous periods of time to ensure admission to specific basketball games (most notably the Duke-UNC game). The graduate student version is slimmed down quite a bit; for 2010, the campout started 7 p.m. Friday, October 1st and ended Sunday, October 3rd at 7 a.m. or so. In between…
Pre-campout: A long night leads to a late start
While the campout didn’t officially start until 7 p.m. Friday, the preparations began Thursday afternoon to setup tents, with another setup from 9 a.m. to Noon Friday. Given that the CCMBA class was tied up for quite some time Thursday evening and well into the early morning Friday (it was for charity after all!), I got a late start setting up my tent. It was clear when I arrived that many others did, in fact, have a large headstart; there was a whole “tent city” setup by the time we arrived, setup in grids with “street” names like “Singler St” and others named after Duke Men’s Basketball players.
Luckily, Mark B., Ray, Louie, and Laurent had already staked out a spot, so my wife and I set up camp about 30 feet from the lone port-o-potty up the hill. More on that later…
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By Randy Zwitch - May 28th, 2010 Category: CCMBA 2010D| Fun
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