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...Dormcest: 1. Act of hooking up with a student living in close proximity, usually in the same dorm or entryway (see Hookup). 2. The source of most Sunday brunch gossip...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dictionary of Harvardisms | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

...meet the other people in your entryway, your proctor (the grad student who lives in the same building as you, serving as half baby-sitter, half adviser), and your PAF (an upperclassmen who is there to advise you). Entryways can be great communities, perfect for friendships and dormcest, so this event is generally quite nice. (But still abounding with awkwardness.) You can go to bed in your new room with your new sheets and be proud: you have survived your very first day of college! If you’re lucky, there will be a crazy thunderstorm and you?...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freshman Week: Accepting Your Awkwardness | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...rice paper.Like Japan, Harvard is not known for its privacy. This is, after all, a school in which the three tasks to complete before graduation all involve some form of public nudity and exposed genitalia. The halls of Annenberg echo with last night’s tale of dormcest and the walls of Canaday are just as thin as those in Japan—although not nearly as delicious.Initially, as a freshman used to the separation of home and school, I found this lack of privacy frustrating. But after a couple of months here, I began to realize that...

Author: By Sachi A. Ezura | Title: Aiming for the A-List | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...house with two of Bryant’s blockmates and other close friends, though Bryant and Park will likely take a floor to themselves. Bryant writes that this arrangement will allow them their own space while still having a sense of community in their living situation. ‘DORMCEST WORKS’J.T. Scarry ’07 and Evelyn Lilly ’07 have known each other since the first day of freshman move-in, when they both took residence in the same entryway in Grays Hall. Scarry writes in an e-mail that their first interaction...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Some Undergrads Tie the Knot in the Ivory Tower | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

...Antigone.” Harvard students get enough of dormcest and leaves of absence, much less incest and exile. Sophocles may have been the most important Greek playwright ever, but this is one case where “sex, lies, and patricide” is really pushing it. 4. “The Father.” See #1. Never forget: One Strindberg play is enough Swedish depression, paranoia, and angst for a generation of Harvard students, and “Pelican” already ran last semester. 3. “Death of a Salesman...

Author: By Mary A. Brazelton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Five Shows That Should Not be Performed at Harvard | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

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