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...outstretched hand and assured us that everything would turn out well as the door closed. I whipped an already-beat Top-Sider at my poster-clad Pennypacker wall. After a year of scabies, long walks to Annenberg, and gazing at a parking-lot vista from my common room window, the prospect of river views and convenient access to the Square was tantalizing. The Union dormite-to-Quadling story is equivalent to a rags-to-new-rags tale. Friends who had been placed in a dumpy river House insisted I was welcome to move in with them. They jest, I thought...
Somewhere, in a land known among common folk as “the Quad,” there is a House called Cabot. Trouble is, no one’s quite certain of where that fabled complex lies, and few other than its mostly anonymous residents have actually been there...
...your blockmates (and the people through the fire door, and the people those people are sleeping with, etc.), Winthrop is the place to do it. Almost all sophomores live in miniscule doubles, and residents are sometimes forced to squeeze into double bedrooms even during their senior year. But with common rooms in every suite, Winthrop lodging is ideal for forced socialization. Plus, humans bond over trauma, and if murdering a six-inch cockroach in your bedroom isn’t trauma, I don’t know what is. Um…at least you have a river view...
...house on the whole. The exception to this apathy is IM sports. IM victories are frequently broadcast over Throptalk, complete with suggestions that Winthrop’s athletes channel superhuman vigor and inexplicable devotion to sports on a regular basis. Power to them. (You can find me in my common room, summoning superhuman heroism on a regular basis in order to kill a midsize colony of cockroaches that have taken up residence there...
...Datamatch is genius at common interest. There aren’t many other people at Harvard who love country music, but both of us did. We liked the same movies, read the same books, and might both be across the pond in six months. She was cool. When the check came...