Sproncert
Lucas reflects on his first Spring Concert experience.
Lucas reflects on his first Spring Concert experience.
Last term, I promised I’d report to you all about how my Spring Concert, or Sproncert, goes. Well, Sproncert came and went, and I am here to report!
In short: I liked it a lot.
Carleton is certainly a social campus, but I wouldn’t call it a huge party school. I think a good number of people here are, like myself, a bit introverted or shy. So it’s uncommon to find really big events where a significant portion of the student body is in one place at one time.
Sproncert’s definitely an outlier. I’ve been hearing about it since winter.
I didn’t attend the entire event, partly because I didn’t think I’d have the energy to, and partly because I had a lot of work I needed to get done that weekend. When I did go, though, there were quite a few people in attendance! It was the most interesting wide-scale use of the Arb I’ve seen.
I had my dear friend Caroline, visiting from over at UChicago, over for the weekend, and to be honest the two of us kind of just took a blanket out to the grass and took a bit of a nap. It was nice.
I hear there was food, though. And multiple performers — everything from student bands, to regional acts, to our headline performer.
There’s not much more I can say about this big, loud, crowded event that I actually enjoyed, but I hope the fact that I (of all people) enjoyed it says something. Instead, I’m gonna devote the rest of this post to cute pictures with friends that I doubt anyone will really care about. Except my parents. I guess they’ll get a kick out of it. Hi, Mom and Dad! 🙂
Lucas is finishing up his freshman year at Carleton, bringing with him a passion for all things nerdy and a talent for overthinking and awkwardness (and self-deprecation). He hails from Pasadena, California, and yes, he realizes it gets cold out here. Currently wildly undecided, he can see himself attempting a Physics and Cinema and Media Studies double major, although Chemistry, Economics, and Computer Science (among many other subjects) have been tempting him as well. He misses his bearded dragon.