Elyssa Cherney of Illinois describes the first-floor cherubs in one word: spontaneous.

“On any given day, we can be having a dance party, eating food that someone’s parents have shipped them or just playing Apples to Apples,” Cherney said.

After floor hours begin at 11 p.m. on weeknights and midnight on weekends, cherubs turn to their floors for bonding and socializing. Each of the four floors has its own traditions. The second floor does vespers, a camp bedtime tradition, almost every night, said Liz Sawyer of Michigan.

“We say our cold prickly and our warm fuzzy of every day,” Sawyer said. “And we have a question that goes around the whole floor. It’s crazy. We come up with the most ridiculous answers.”

Nearly every first-floor cherub participates in floor bonding each night, Cherney said.

“It’s kind of like an unspoken thing,” Cherney said. “It’s nice because I don’t necessarily see these people during the day. I don’t know if I’d be as close with them if they weren’t on my floor.”

Sophia Valner of California said she never knows how many people will participate in bonding on her floor. To encourage people to participate in floor bonding, Valner and some other third-floor cherubs run around and scream for everyone to come out.

“Sometimes people are sleeping, and they come out anyway,” Valner said. “Those are the hardcore people. Sometimes people are just like, ‘No, I’m not coming,’ or have stupid excuses.”

Whenever the third floor can get people to come out, they usually play Never Have I Ever, a game that helps players get to know one another, Valner said.

“It’s fun, and it’s really funny to play with people that you don’t know at all,” she said.

Although the boys of the fourth floor had some trouble branching out at the beginning of the program, Gabi Remz of Massachusetts thinks that these “barriers have been knocked down.”

“There’s just a whole lot of camaraderie between the guys, we all love each other,” Remz said. “We’re all brothers, we’re bros, we’re basically a brommunity. We tell each other about our first loves, and our feelings and passions toward the female cherubs.”

Remz’s favorite memory is singing an Alicia Keys song with other fourth-floor cherubs.

“There was no talking, we just all got up and started dancing,” he said. “We had some nice slow dancing. It was just guys, but it wasn’t weird. It was a blast.”

The fourth-floor boys also began a tradition of having “bro trials” if someone commited something “un-brolike.”

Although people on each floor bond in different ways, they all share the common theme of bonding over food. The third floor orders pizza almost every night, Valner said. Sawyer agrees that food is a bonding force.

“We bring some food out, and it’s like bugs to a light,” Sawyer said. “We’re all starving by that point in time.”