For many boarding students at Choate, the highlight of the week is the unexpected dorm mug night prepared by the dorm advisers. “Mug night” is a term used in dorms when advisers share baked goods, ice cream, or other treats with their advisees during the study break. (Traditionally, students brought their own mugs from which to eat food.) Some residential members of the Choate community took a moment to share their favorite type of mug night,
Madison Lee ’22 and Claire Hong ’22 : “We’re new students, and we live in Nichols, which is a freshman girls’ dorm. We’ve had a lot of mug nights over the past few weeks. For us, mug nights are usually when we eat junk foods. We’ve had popsicles, chips, M&Ms, pretzels, and Cheerios. Honestly, popsicles were the best. I hope we can have more ice cream.”
Charlotte Raine ’21: “I live in West Wing this year as a sophomore. My favorite mug night was when Ms. K. bought a wide variety of chips from Costco. Even though it’s store bought, it was still good. I hope we have monkey bread for our next mug night.”
Anna Bonnem ’21 : “This year, I’m living in a sophomore and junior dorm, Hall. It is just above the dining hall. My favorite dorm mug night this year so far has been monkey bread. I liked it because it tasted amazing and because one of my advisers, Mr. Kafoglis, made it. In the future, I hope we can have more monkey bread.”
Aris Tambakis ’19 : “I’m a senior prefect in Clinton Knight. I have to say I prefer artisan cheese nachos with homemade guac. They’re delicious. It’s a great snack after a long day of arduous work. The guacamole was prepared by myself, Ms. van Mierlo, and Jack Smoot ’19. We usually have homemade mug nights. It’s very tasty. In addition to the cheese nachos, I also highly recommend the pigs-in-a blanket. They’re the bomb. We do not have them as often, but they’re equally as tasty. Still, we need more nachos.”
Alicia Xiong ’21 : “I am extremely satisfied that I’m living in Bernhard because I have had so many mug nights in a couple of weeks. My favorite one so far has been Zoe’s homemade cookies. They are cookies with faces on them. If I could make a personal wish, I would like to request more frequent mug nights and monkey bread. I also love that fact that a birthday girl gets a crown.”
Will Robertson ’20 : “I’m a fifth-former living in Hill House. My favorite mug night we’ve had so far was when Mr. Proulx’s girlfriend made homemade apple cider and apple crumble for the whole dorm — she’s a great baker, and, as a boarder, it’s really nice to have homemade food once in a while. I think anything along those lines would be great; however, I think I might be biased towards the apple cider and crumble, since Virginia is a big apple state and it reminds me of home!”
