Word: curriered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...struck with a peculiar epiphany. Surprisingly enough, my biased idealization of European culture translates quite nicely into a self-serving comparison between Europe and the Quad. Though initially you may scoff at this unlikely analogy, it is a convenient means to convince myself and others that my life in Currier is second in glamour only to life in the City of Lights. Really, the evidence abounds...
...community, doubted among outsiders, is a very real and powerful kinship arising from shared experience. Whereas the River Houses lack continuity, the Quad is a united federation like the European Union. On one hand we are composed of autonomous nations--Great Britain, France, Spain--and distinct and independent Houses--Currier, Cabot, Pforzhemier. On the other hand, we are linked by the documents we carry in order to travel: the common Euro passport and, in our case, the indispensable Shuttle schedule. We also, therefore, tend to identify ourselves in this supranational context; one often says "I live in the Quad" before...
Shara R. Kay '00 is a romance languages concentrator living in Currier House. She's converted all her dollars into Euros and traded in her Blahniks for walking shoes...
According to Graham, Currier still offers anumber of classes in the House--including thefirst-year seminar that Graham teaches--but hasstill seen teaching and office space disappear...
...Persian Society celebrated the New Year festival of Nowrooz with a night of traditional food and dance on Friday in the Currier House Fishbowl...