Fill up your water bottle at Willard Straight.
Accidentally drop your water bottle during rehearsal and cause an earthquake
Sing evening song after rehearsal
Audition for after 8
Get distracted by the chimes at rehearsal
Lose your voice at chariot
Bond with other members over hating some aspects of eca
Figure out how to tie an ascot
Sing from the crypt at lessons and carols
courtesy of Nina Young
10. Get Louie’s after a concert.
11. Get competitive about your voice part
12. Bluff your way through the words to Cornell songs
13. Do choralography at an inappropriate moment out of instinct
14. Reach out to the community for help about a non-chorus related problem.
15. Tour burn!!!!
16. Almost fall off the riser.
17. Run up the tower after lessons and carols
18. Be an officer <3
19. Panic because you forgot your folder
20. Fall in love with another glorus member
21. Have to share your life story with the secretary to get excused from rehearsal
22, Argue about which class is superior
23. Max out on service points
24. Make friends with a Chorus alum
25. Sing a solo in Song of the Classes
26. Get popcorn before rehearsal.
27. Spend a rehearsal in the “sick bay”
28. Ask the Care Chair for Advil
29. Drink water conspicuously when the warmup goes out of your range
30. Forget to bring black tights on tour
31. “Forget” to return your music
32. Spill something on your permanent rep packet
33. Buy black shoes for your first Twilight because you somehow didn’t bring any to college
34. Get a Chorus mentor!
35. Load up on reception snacks
36. Trip while walking across the Bailey risers
37. Attend Chorus History Tea
38. Quartercard for the Chorus on Ho Plaza
39. Forget something in Sage Basement
40. Send an email to the listserv
41. Accidentally reply all to the listserv
42. Stay up too late at retreat
43. Stay for senior week
44. Sing in Cornelliana
45. Go to an AC meeting
46. Accompany the Chorus on an instrument
47. Forget your pencil and/or folder
48. Nap in Sagement
49. Sing in more than 3 different languages in one semester
50. Meet your best friend
51. Enter the Choral Library and plumb its secrets
52. Go on tour
53. Get sick during tour
54. Travel to another country on tour
55. Listen to interesting stories from your host families on tour.
56. Accidentally be late when returning to the tour bus
57. Add your homestays on LinkedIn during tour
58. Take pictures with your homestays’ pets :)
59. Wear your ECA far too many times without washing it
60. Let your folder slam onto the floor at a concert
61. Learn a Glee Club song
62. Make a gingerbread house for the winter competition
63. Cry when the seniors are featured at Lessons and Carols
64. Go to an After Eight concert
65. Go to one of the Hangovers’ concerts
66. Walk up a hill in ECA
67. Run up a hill in ECA
68. Get mistaken for a flight attendant while wearing DCA
69. Break or lose your candle at Lessons and Carols
70. Be photographed for a poster or interviewed for a recruitment video
71. Get rained on at commencement or convocation
72. Get sunburned at commencement or convocation
73. Take a group pic with the commencement speaker
74. Become a superfan of a commission composer
75. Read all the words printed around the ceiling of Sage
76. Live with other Chorus members
77. Have a pre-Glormal photoshoot
78. Doodle/write down quotes from rehearsal onto your sheet music. Realize that you have to return it at the end of the semester
79. Sleep on a pew (or pew cushion) at retreat
80. Perform a Major Work!!
81. Suffer through wearing black tights for concerts before realizing that black dress socks are the move
82. Pick your favorite perm rep song <3
83. Meet eyes with a Glorus member across the room and make a silly face
84. Fall in love with a homestay family on tour, whose kindness you will never forget
85. Not have cell service and/or the correct currency on tour
86. Walk proudly through a dining hall in your ECA while getting pre-concert dinner
87. Stay up late having a deep conversation with a member you didn’t know well before at your tour homestay
88. Make a new friend at retreat :)
89. Pick your senior dinner song T_T
90. Hastily grab dinner or a pre-rehearsal snack at Libe, spotting no less than 5 Chorus and/or Glee Club members doing the same thing
91. Stretch your mind or your legs at Midnight Madness
92. Make an announcement during rehearsal
93. Hang up concert posters for ~points~
94. Change your Facebook banner and write a post for a Chorus event
95. Have too much class spirit at the gingerbread competition
96. Make a meme for the GroupMe
97. Make a mistake in a concert and play it cool
98. Struggle to put on the boutonniere pre-concert, and get help from another member
99. Buy and wear Chorus merch!
100. Listen to recordings of the Chorus when you get nostalgic
Contributors: Melissa Gao, Nina Yang, Zoe Kim, Ketchel Carey, Heather Hamann, Maggie Lin, Amy Crouch, Crystal Arguelles, Caroline Hinrichs, Victoria Correa, Sanjeevani Joshi, Emily Hurwitz, Marinna Chung