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...Still early in the evening, he gets the first of many where-should-we-go-now queries from friends seeking the Fisher social savvy. This time, it’s Willie, who’s at the Fly. “Yeah, we’re going to make a night out of it tonight,” Fisher says. Willie is a friend from Fisher’s alma mater, St. Albans, in Washington, D.C. Fisher is quick to point out, however, that’s he no D.C. native. “I’ve actually lived...
...Freshman year of high school on the East Coast was a tough transition, which perhaps explains Fisher’s drive to succeed in his first year of college. At Harvard, he has just made the Krokodiloes and plans to comp the Crimson editorial board. Fisher is also an aspiring singer-songwriter who has released a CD under the name Miles Fisher. He hopes to play in a band at Harvard. He hopes everything will go according to plan...
...parties involving drunken semi-nudity generally are, this one is broken up at 10 p.m. by the dreaded proctor. Fisher and his friends wait out in the Yard while the Stoughton roommates meet with their proctor. They emerge as vanquished heroes soon afterwards, off the hook but under obligation to meet with their assistant dean of freshmen the following week for a talk on “mutual respect.” “That’s freshman year for you,” one guy says, shrugging. “It’s all about trying...
...When he arrives at Cabot the room is sparsely populated, but Fisher, unfazed by his unfortunate promptness, still works the crowd. He greets boarding-school sophomore buddies, his main social connections. At this early stage in the evening, the girl-to-guy ratio is skewed in favor of the girls, so it seems an appropriate time to delve into the murky waters of first-year love life. “There’s a lot of cutie-pie girls here,” Fisher observes, “but so far this year I haven’t asked...
...Sadly, Cabot is devoid of “cutie-pies,” so after an hour of drinking games and reunions with his Yard compatriots, Fisher moves on to a party in Winthrop hosted by “another buddy from St. Albans.” A false fire alarm brings everyone out onto the streets by 1 a.m., and since his upperclass friends decide to head out to a bar, it’s time for Fisher to call it a night...