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...happens to the best of us. You read a novel, bash it in The London Review of Books, and then, a year later, you meet the author. Awkward...
...Radcliffe women carried suitcases of prim skirts and sweaters into their North House rooms on move-in day. Harvard men wore ties to dinner. Separated by the stretch of land from the Quadrangle to the River, the genders rarely mixed. Men and women only met in classes and at awkward mixers. Everywhere, there were rules: women had to leave men’s dorms by 11 p.m., women could not enter House dining halls alone, and men had to check in at the bells desk of a woman’s dorm lobby before meeting with...
...wanted to work with rural folks in the future, either as a forest ranger or a doctor. Everyone knew Phil: he held spots on Quincy’s Social Committee and HoCo and a job at the dining hall desk, checking everyone in. But he was still shy and awkward around girls...
...classes. Like other girls, she went on meticulously planned dates, dressing up and going into Boston for plays, the symphony, and visits to art museums. For those who didn’t have luck finding dates, there would be consolatory milk and cookies on Saturday nights and awkward Quad formals to which they could invite men anonymously...
...awkward in the beginning,” Phil says. “When you’re around girls who are potential dates, you really react much differently than if you’re just friends. The usual thing to do is to make sure that you look your absolute best...