Word: dorm
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Finding an apartment is a good example. In high school, I fantasized about having an apartment of my own, and I decorated it in my mind down to the last detail. Throughout college, I have complained about dorm life. Now it comes time to find that much-awaited apartment, and I come to three harsh realizations--I have to find it, I have to pay for it, and I have to maintain it. My apartment search is only a few weeks old, and already I'm looking at my little room in Winthrop in a new light. Perhaps I will...
After assigning students to rooming groups, the deans place the groups in entryways. According to Sparagana, the deans aim to create "a microcosm of the College" in each dorm...
Kinloch says Nathans told them that height was one criteria for the roommate combination because of the dorm's slanting ceilings. Islam, the tallest of the roommates...
...they can get into other houses. Never mind that all these would-be felons can just wait a few minutes for a colleague to let them in, and that the lack of universal access means propped doors across campus. If Harvard students had universal access to all houses and dorms, we would think twice before letting a waiting stranger into a house or dorm...
...addition, it is more unsafe for students to be locked out of houses late at night. It would increase safety if students walking home in the dark could quickly enter a dorm if the need arose. Also, due to randomization, students and their friends are more universally spread across the Houses and they need universal key card access...