NYU Shabbat for 1000

Couldn't get up yesterday so I slept through crim. Went to the gym and ran 20 min and did some light weights before jumping into business casual for lunch at Shearman Sterling. They're located on the East Side so getting there required 3 subways. Real pain. Beautiful location though. Much prettier than Times Square. Apparently Shearman was once a very well respected firm and is now somewhat on the decline with a lot of people latteraling out. They had a very nice building though, fun art, cushy leather chairs, decent lunch. Nice recruiting staff too. Shared cabs back to campus to avoid the subway mess. Rallied the troops and travelled downtown with 4 Columbia grad student friends. Went to NYU's Koach for servies after meeting up with NYU buddies. The draw was that dinner afterwards at Puck was for 1000 people. Might be the biggest Jewish gathering I've seen outside of Israel (pro-Israel youth leadership march in Jerusalem was over 1000). It was deafening and blinding with the amount of motion in the room. Very disorienting. Couldn't really meet people. It was too much of a mad house. Like clubbing almost. The food was ok, as well as could be expected for free. Bacon bits on the salad. Kosher, but still very weird. We all went to one of my NYU friends' apartments to regroup after dinner and then went to the oneg in Weinstein Hall. Another mad house. Everyone seemed to be orthodox and anti social too. Bad scene. We left pretty quickly with one aquisition. Regrouped at my other NYU friend's apartment. Sadly she was out of booze. Most of the Columbia crowd went home at that point. Headed to a bar in Chelsea, The Park, and celebrated a CLS friend's birthday. It was like a who's who of the 1L class. Must have been 50 people there. Basic mixed drinks were $8 a piece. Pretty pricey especially after getting used to not paying for alcohol. Nice bar though. After hanging out there a while we went back to the first friend's house and tried to mix drinks. But she had no mixers. I got sent down to buy OJ and Cranberry juice at a deli. I always draw the short straw. After some vodka and Thai food, hung out until about 4:30. Walked back to the subway and somehow didn't get home until 6. The subway wouldn't stop anywhere near Columbia so I had to walk from 96th street. Saw some of the sunrise. Wasn't very happy about that. Pretty cold and a lot of walking. Good break from school though.  ¶ 11:08 AM