people can hear it before they see it class 3A’s frat party—bass thumping through the walls, windows rattling, people shouting over the music. The house itself is usually worn down from years of parties: sticky floors, scuffed walls, couches that have seen better decades. Colored lights or Christmas lights are strung up haphazardly, and the air smells like beer, sweat, cheap cologne, and whatever food was left out too long.