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...felt like crap. Literally. After what seemed like a series of unfortunate personal and circumstantial setbacks, I’d been subjugated in my sophomore spring to the lowest caste of the Harvard housing system: floater. The word itself conjures up images of things fecal. A floater??an upperclassman unable to form a rooming group who is then randomly assigned a room and bunkmate for the following semester—is a lowly untouchable, a creepy loner left to bob about in a cesspool of social rejects and awkward bedfellows...

Author: By Charles J. Wells | Title: Freedom to Float | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...makeover, inept social skills, and a shot at a hot blonde! This could be the highlight of being an undergrad. 4. “Survivor” Don’t be a leader—people will hate you. Don’t be a floater??people will doubt you. Don’t lose. Don’t eat meals consisting solely of coconuts. Never express dissatisfaction or a desire to go home, even when extremely ill from only eating coconuts. Don’t be strong, but don’t be weak. I have...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What I Really Learned From Reality Television | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...only has Dylan’s image been questioned in recent years, but his musical integrity and lyrical honesty have also come under scrutiny. Songs off of his new album such as “Floater?? and “Po’ Boy” seem to take lines almost verbatim from the English translation of Junachi Saga’s Confessions of a Yakuza...

Author: By Akash Goel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tangled Up In Books | 11/19/2004 | See Source »

Solbrig, Lowell Professor of the Humanities Walter J. Bate and Associate Dean of the Faculty and Chair of the Expos subcommittee Glen W. Bowersock ’57 said that they strongly supported this bypass proposal and “floater?? plan that would have allowed students to transfer one half-course of the Core requirement to another field of study...

Author: By Risheng Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Constructing the Core Curriculum | 6/9/2004 | See Source »

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