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March 18, 2005
DRAGON DAY!
Today was the 104th anual dragon day at Cornell. For those not familiar, this is when all the archetect students stay up all night for a week or so to build a gigantic dragon out of wire, cardbored, fabric, etc. Around St. Patty's day, right before spring break, they parade it down central campus and onto the arts quad, which had been TP'd the night before (see picture). The Engeneer students are supposed to build a phoenix and burn the dragon, but this year they haphazardly build a penquin with some 2x4's and duct tape. Once on the arts quad, after some yelling and running around by the first year archetects (the one's who built the dragon), the dragon is lit on fire. This year it was awesome, the flames were so big and so hot we had to back up. It was a beautiful day to have it too, the sun was shining, some puffy white clouds in the sky - these kind of days make me want to freeze time. Here's a picture of the 2002 year dragon to give you an idea of what goes on (I'll get some of this year's if I can):
HAPPY DRAGON DAY!
Posted by agutwin at March 18, 2005 02:23 PM
Comments
YOU BURN DRAGONS?!!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!! I PUT THE CURSE OF DRAGONS ON YOU!!!! THATS AN ACT OF PURE EVIL!!! EMAIL ME AND I WILL BE HAPPY TO ARGUE FOR THE DRAGON'S SAKE! SAVE THE DRAGONS!! UR EVIL!!!
Posted by: The DragonLady at March 27, 2006 10:37 PM