<p>It’s just a welcoming ceremony for freshman women. Although she’ll be a alumnae for life, she’ll only get one chance to go through it. It might not matter, it could be boring, but then, you’ll never know otherwise. Like other university and college traditions across the country, my recommendation would be to embrace the ones you can, when you can, because you don’t want to look back 40 years from now and go, “I should have done that”. These things tend to be more meaningful when you look back at them with nostalgia than during the moment.</p>