Word: entryway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...until prom night, when, on a letter-strewn beach, I found my classmates eagerly guzzling beverages I had never heard of. When I arrived at Harvard that September, getting smashed was not on my list of goals. I don't think I even thought about alcohol until the first entryway meeting...
David Okrent's first-year entryway mates saidthey remembered him as a serious student whoalways had time for conversations with friends...
Eighty dollars disappeared from a jewelry box in Lowell House's D-entryway on Feb. 28, McNamara said...
Noah blames his restraint on an unspoken rule against entryway relationships, a rule which reflects the attitude that romance can be dangerous. At the same time, he admits that "it's easier to make a goddess out of one girl than it is to make something work with a real girl here on Planet Harvard." He sheepishly adds, "I guess I'm just not ready yet to leave the security of my romantic fantasy-land and enter the world of real relationships. Relationships are after all, always much less certain and potentially devastating to both people...
During the first few weeks of our first year, "social life" generally involved renting a movie with our entryway-mates or following a horde of people out to some establishment requiring a fake ID. Now, as juniors, we either care much less about being part of the horde or are part of an institutionalized one. In either case, most of us are well on our way to being socially settled, at least...