Word: boredatlamont
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...check off the Widener box without the nagging guilt of unfinished assignments. Unlike Primal Scream, which happens but once a year, Widener was always there for us. But now we’ll have to plan our assignations around its budget cuts. And for people who rely on BoredatLamont for their romantic interactions, Saturday nights just got a lot lonelier. Everyone will have to find other places to do those things we always do in libraries, like having free wireless access and not sleeping...
...college experience are crumbling. Between Facebook and YouTube and whatever those crazy twenty-something billionaires think of next, student life is only getting more transparent. There’s no such thing as a purely on-campus issue anymore, now that online discussion threads like Harvard’s BoredatLamont or Brown’s Daily Jolt have elevated anonymous libel to a fully searchable art form. Every time a kid loses an internship because an employer found annotated bong-rip pics on a MySpace page, students clamor that their privacy has been invaded. At IvyGate, we deal with fallout...
...have not read "B@L," the allure of the anonymous, online chat room is its unabashed voyeurism: the graphic sexual fantasies and the inexplicable descriptions of people whom writers "know" from the dining hall, section, or, most likely, Facebook. Recently, boredatlamont engaged my curiosity because my name has been mentioned on its pages repeatedly. But I would have lost interest quickly had the comments simply ranged from the flattering ("Andrew Fine is my McDreamy") to the hurtful ("Andrew Fine is fugly...
...this age of anonymous chat rooms and Lamont glory holes (now filled-in), the possibility of "human contact" is becoming much more distant. With the ever-strengthening communities that have formed on sites like boredatlamont (one writer excused himself on Monday night for dinner and assured other commentators that he would be back soon), online forums could institute a vicious cycle in which the most vulnerable students become reliant on virtual reality as their medium of contact...
...many, however, the anonymity of boredatlamont is its greatest attraction: the ability to vent one’s frustrations and sadness without facing another person. Luckily, anonymity at Harvard is not dependent on the internet. In lieu of a comforting social scene, there are numerous resources—including Room 13, Contact, Response, and ECHO—that not only guarantee one’s anonymity, but also include human contact, and likely provide more reliable help than the pages...