Secret Santa

Finals time is typically a stressful period of the term. Typically students are busy studying in the library, finishing up term projects, and writing the last few pages of those big papers. However the end of C-term is a mix of emotions: the stress of finals and joy of the holidays.

To give an example: I spent a few hours today in the library preparing my notes for my open notebook final tomorrow. Organizing, summarizing, and highlighting- not necessarily fun, but certainly helpful for tomorrow. However tonight I am relaxing with the roomies. We've planned a secret santa roomie night. We don't have a fire place so we will gather around the tv, it's the Biggest Loser Finale, drink eggnog and exchange gifts.

Playing secret santa with your roomates isn't as easy as it sounds. Yes, you know people very well, however the secret part is quite challenging. After much talk and concern of people cheating, (we are a very competetive group of people), we have made some roomies rules:

1) We must all used the same wrapping paper- b/c clearly we have seen each other wrapping other gifts for family and such.
2) We had to type our gift tags- b/c hand writing is a dead give away
3) We had to put our gifts under the tree at some random point in the night - b/c the tree is in our living room, and we couldn't be seen by others.
4) We could not discuss who we had; with anyone! - This may seem obvious, but even with people outside of the apartment it was just too risky.
5) No one can guess who their secret santa is until all gifts have been opened.
6) We each made predictions as to who had who; these have been put into a cookie tin and may not be looked at until all presents have been opened and all secret santas have been announced.

WOW.... we really are a bit TOO into this game.