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...with the girl who may have pulled you to the Northeast in the first place, all the while watching people trickle in from warm-weather intersession trips cracking inside jokes in the dining hall in groups of eight to 12, you begin to feel very small. You are a floater, a piece of paperwork for the house administration, and, more often than not, especially mid-year, you are the disappointing replacement of a close friend either graduated early or gone abroad. It feels immediately like a mistake, and you miss your old friends and you miss warm arms. It does...
...home is a feeling, an impression, it is a transitory one. This fall I was a floater again, living in a Currier third-floor single. I had loose connections with some of the guys on my floor and one strong friendship. I was hopeful, though I knew that nothing is more difficult than infiltrating a group of friends. There are house rules, longstanding jokes first cracked at 4 a.m. in a Canaday hallway, hookup histories. After a couple of weeks, I felt like Jack Bauer in 24, learning to blend in and snoop around for clues—that girl...
There's a running gag in Floater, Calvin Trillin's 1980 comic novel about a newsmagazine that sounds a lot like TIME, in which the medicine writer comes down with the symptoms of whatever disease he's writing about that week. I was reminded of that hapless writer when I read about a new study out of University College London that found that people who use the Web to get information about their chronic diseases often wind up in worse shape than before they logged...
Talk to someone who saw sophomore point guard Michael Beal swat Casey Hughes’ floater about 50-feet from where the shot originated...
...that he no longer wanted to live in the Quad. Over the summer he attempted to transfer to a River House with the help of one of his visual and environmental studies tutors. When his transfer request fell through, Frashure ended up being placed in a double with a floater who had transferred into his blocking group at the last minute. “He [the floater] didn’t want to live in the same room with me because I was gay,” says Frashure. As a result, he got shuffled around from House masters...