Word: first-years
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...Randomization: 1. The lottery process that assigns you to a house where you will find lots of "diverse" people who share nothing in common. 2. A Harvard event that has ruined many a first-year's spring break (see Blocking...
...unblushingly dimmed the lights, turned on jazz music and folded out his futon. We proceeded eagerly if clumsily. The next day I bragged to my roommates about the hook-up, all the more distinguished in my eyes because he was an upperclass student. I felt like the coolest first-year I'd met. My fatal misstep, however, came later that week when, in a roomful of his friends, I snuggled up to him on a couch and took his hand without a second thought. After a second torrid evening, he called me out into the Eliot courtyard to talk--this...
...thereafter attended weekly board meetings in Eliot with Andre, the co-chair. I refused to buy a winter jacket with my aunt until I could see what everyone else was wearing (ordinary parkas, thankfully). By second semester the sparkle began to wear off at last. I started dating another first-year, dropped the requirement for matching shoes and belt and began to let my calls to Eliot House trail...
...Dave, Andre and their friends have graduated. A senior now, I look at my first-year self in his Kenneth Cole boots and think: I was so young, younger than I ever realized. The afternoon light in the Eliot House courtyard seems to glimmer from the other end of the world...
...true clique in the making from the moment we made our sweaty post-FOP introductions, my first-year roommates determined that we would exist as a pack. The four of us synchronized our alarm clocks. Our Annenberg schedule was timed so we would never have a solo meal...