Word: dorm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...immediate destination of this Ethernet wiring is your friendly neighborhood "hub", a device usually located in the basement of your house or dorm. The hub concentrates the data from 100 or so users in your physical area, and plays "traffic cop" for the packets coming into and out of your area...
...Farm believes in learning by doing. Students practice infiltrating a hostile country at a fake border, with watchtowers, guards and police dogs. Instructors simulate enemy capture by breaking into dorm rooms in the middle of the night and carrying off trainees to a bare room for days of intense interrogation. It all ends with "hell week," in which students travel to a U.S. city to stage a covert-operations exercise. fbi agents are brought in to play the part of foreign security officers who try to nab the students...
...books or do research; they are essential extensions of our study space. Unlike the "real world," we're not able to work as late as we choose in our homes, with the lights, heat and radio on, maintaining ideal study conditions even in the dead of night. In our dorm rooms, even if no one's talking, trying to read with pillows temptingly few inches away is not easy. Worse still, Harvard's heating authorities, who presumably retire to their own warm bedrooms each evening, have insanely decreed that room temperatures migrate down to 64 degrees overnight...
...Coop overcharges us for textbooks. Yes, the Core curriculum sucks. Our phone service is sub-optimal, sometimes our rooms are a little cramped, the advising system is generally inadequate, we cannot get cable hookups in our dorm rooms, the shuttles do not always run on time, our libraries are not open late enough and we have exams after winter break...
...blood rise to my cheeks from the cold is a literal breath of fresh air. And I want the option that I can walk if I want to. Of course, Harvard can't control the problems of urban living. But if I am walking from the library to my dorm, from one Harvard property to another, and it's only a little after 11 p.m., I should feel safe enough...