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ESTHER DYSON, editor of technology newsletter Release 1.0 for CNET Networks: The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. In my own experience, it has drawn my family closer, as we post pictures on Flickr. It has done more than tap into something latent; it has actually created something that wasn't there with the younger family members. We couldn't do that before because we were all geographically separated...
...explanation for overcrowded dorm parties is simply Harvard’s unique residential housing system. At a great number of other universities the majority of students live off campus after their first or second year. This radically changes their social scene in several ways. For one, parties (and alcohol of any kind for that matter) are generally not allowed in the dorms. The term “dorm party” doesn’t really exist. And two, since students do not live in dorms, they are able to more easily facilitate parties in their fraternity houses and apartment...
Final clubs are an intoxicating experience. Since the start of freshman year, they have kept me drunk: drunk with enough alcohol to kill a small country, but also drunk with a sad sense of social elitism. Despite many moral misgivings, however, I still find myself—now a senior—standing at their doorsteps and date events, indulging my guilty pleasure. I keep going because I lack a clear conviction as to why I should not.I often feel that I operate in two different worlds here at Harvard. In one, I find my favorite classmates and closest friends...
...into stilettos, find my tightest jeans, and head out to Mt. Auburn Street. My freshman clique and I would shiver on the steps while a club member looked us up and down to see if we were hot enough to get in. Inside we’d be handed alcohol by someone we usually didn’t know, dance or play beer pong, and end up making out with a cute guy that we’d never actually see during the daylight hours. Wooooh, college...
...sure a lot of guys reading this are thinking, “I would never do something like that.” And maybe that is true. But when a social venue is entirely run by men, where men control the space and the alcohol, even the best intentions can result in some pretty imbalanced situations...