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This guy didn’t even pretend. He just looked at me like I had vomited into his backpack. And then he left...
...serves a dual purpose, both covering the unwashed hair and declaring allegiance to a team he’s not really familiar with beyond Nomar Garciaparra. His Gap-jeans-and-sneakers ensemble sometimes veers dangerously into Jerry Seinfeld territory, but the North Face backpack he tows to the Lamont Reading Room every afternoon screams student. The pride and joy of his wardrobe is a Keezer’s suit—replete with sleeves just a tiny bit too short—purchased last week in preparation for upcoming recruiting interviews...
...leaving Galway has its pleasures, too. Last weekend I experienced again the inexhaustible thrill of being a young traveller, of getting off a bus in Dublin with a backpack on and trying to find my way to a hostel using a tiny Let’s Go map. When I stood (with a high school friend who had popped over from Oxford) at the gates of Trinity College for a “backpackers’ pub crawl” I heard the gorgeous sound of travel stories being exchanged in various accents—“We?...
...First-Year Outdoor Program (FOP) believes in the power of the backpack...
...admit that the 5,000-cubic-inch backpack might be overkill for the ID card and notebook I carry to class. But when 10 Harvard students are hiking through the New England backcountry, we need every bit of that space. So although I cannot take my pack to class unless I plan to camp out in the Science Center, there are other lessons that I—along with 350 other FOP leaders and first-years—did take back from the woods when we returned, smelly and rumpled, to fair Harvard...