Word: dorm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outside the gates of the Yard," a dean may tell you at one of those orientation meetings where they also tell you that cheating and plagiarism are generally bad things that are frowned upon by the University, "unless we put you in a Union dorm--in which case you can go to the Yard and the Union. But whatever you do, don't go down to the river. Save that privilege for next year...
...imagine there's a prefrosh anywhere who dreams about living in Greenough, Hurlbut or Pennypacker. Along with places like New Quincy and the Jordon Coops, these dorms have been relegated to a sort of Ivy League purgatory--they're bona fide, but some of their prestige got lost along the way. You'll never see a Union dorm on an admissions tour or in a promotional booklet. They represent the underside of a preppie heaven, where bedroom vistas incorporate the band headquarters, a cafeteria delivery zone and old rusty dumpsters...
...tiff, and listened to all mybitching about my parents. He was the first personto know when I found out I was going to appear on"Jeopardy!" in the spring, and when the show airedin May, he was the one I chose to watch it with,even though the entire dorm had congregated towatch it in one of the pods...
There were twelve of us--fewer males than females, a rarity among MIT peer groups--and we lived in a dorm called Next House. We procrastinated our problem sets by playing with Jessica's Play-Doh, Megan's Nerf fencing set and Kevin's keyboard. We ate dinner together at six every evening. We watched "Say Anything" over and over, just because Andrea liked it. We even staged our own formal, because Next House didn't have...
Starting again wasn't easy, though, and I would have ended up as the Perpetual Other if I hadn't made a conscious effort not to. I lived in off-campus overflow housing for a few months and couldn't move into the dorm system until the beginning of junior year. I roamed from comp to comp before winding up as design editor at The Crimson. Even now, most of the people I know at Harvard are Crimson editors, gov jocks, ec nerds, Russophiles or transfers...