“We have to get drunk on Thursday night,” said Collin Culbertson ’10. “Our whole suite normally goes together.”

Culbertson attended the most recent Senior Night at the British Banker’s Club (BBC) in Menlo Park with a group of guy friends, including suitemate Adam Dunbar ’10.

“I liked the atmosphere at the BBC, although it was not the usual Stanford crew,” Dunbar said.

“There were not as many people as at other pub nights,” Culbertson agreed.

While students like Culbertson and Dunbar, who have attended the majority of Senior Nights, might have noticed a difference in attendance at this one, Senior Night newbie Manus McCaffery ’10 didn’t haven’t any preconceptions.

“I figured I might as well try it once,” McCaffery said. “I ran into people I hadn’t spoken to since freshman year. I just hung out with people.”

Running into long-lost classmates seems to be a theme at Senior Night.

“It’s fun to go and see a lot of people that I’ve had classes with, acquaintances that I don’t get to see,” said Midori Uehara ’10. “You go and realize you actually know a lot of people in the senior class.”

This was Uehara’s second Senior Night of the quarter and the first one she was fully able to participate in, having just finished her field hockey season.

“I pregamed a little bit, then I went over to Theta to meet up with friends,” Uehara said. “At the bar, we mostly just danced.”

This particular Senior Night was interesting because when early students like Lynn Ngai ’10 arrived at the bar, there was an adult salsa class being held on the dance floor.

“When we got there at 11, we were literally the only Stanford students there,” Ngai said. “There was a salsa class going on downstairs [and] we thought we went to the wrong place since no other students were there.”

Eventually other students showed up, and Ngai and her friends ended up having a fun night.

“The BBC was interesting. They had good music,” Ngai said. “It was my third pub night–not as fun as the other two.”

After Senior Night students usually catch the bus back to campus and head home or hang out with their friends. Culbertson, Dunbar and their rowdy group managed to find a way to entertain themselves until early morning.

“We went home and played Madden for three hours.”