Word: bahadu
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...While Bahadu has become a major contributor to Harvard student life, his transition to college wasn’t so smooth. “Freshman year, I think I should have figured out where the libraries were—I didn’t set foot in a library until April,” he says. Bahadu opted instead to study in his room in Thayer—one of the most social dorms that year. “I lived on the first floor right next to the elevator,” he says. “Everybody...
David L. Stahl ’04 shared that Thayer room with Bahadu, and he says he spotted Bahadu’s star quality early on. “He told me he was a dork in high school,” Stahl says, “but he got a lot cooler when he got to college...
...self-described dork status may be behind him, but Bahadu has remained close to his roots, rooming with Kofi A. Kumi ’04, with whom he has been friends since he was four. Kumi says Bahadu “is probably the same as he was when he was six years old—very serious, very involved in his school” and always putting forth “100 percent effort in everything...
...well,” Stahl says as he struggled to describe Bahadu’s appeal. “He is the kind of person who makes everyone he meets feel special.”“The people here make it worth it,” Bahadu says. “The people I have met here are pretty damn phenomenal.” That’s exactly what people say about...
Before running off early, Texan belle Jennifer N. Hawkins tells more face-in-the-snow tales, and Shaka J. Bahadu charms the crowd with accounts of first-year Primal Scream embarrassment. “I was real skinny, and self-conscious. And black, which meant that when my friends pushed me to the front, everyone knew who I was.” The relationship between his freshman performance and his current status as first class marshal remains up for interpretation...