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...strains of classical music float through the Seven Stars bookstore in Central Square, quietly weaving past the comfortable armchairs and the clerk reading at the checkout desk...
Disciples of Piaget have a tolerance for--indeed a fascination with--children's primitive laws of physics: that things disappear when they are out of sight; that the moon and the sun follow you around; that big things float and small things sink. Einstein was especially intrigued by Piaget's finding that seven-year-olds insist that going faster can take more time--perhaps because Einstein's own theories of relativity ran so contrary to common sense...
...were "voted out" of group, and, in the fall, sophomores incapable of doing anything remotely social on campus without bringing along their 16 closest friends. And then, of course, there are the "floaters," students whose friendships split along awkward fault lines, forcing them to jump into the cracks and "float" into a new House without the comfort of familiar faces. As the innards strewn across the Yard indicate, the process is a blast...
...Floating has a horrible reputation. People only choose to float when they are left with no other options, and the fact that they have no other options makes others come to the easy conclusion that floaters are pathetic social outcasts with no lives. Perhaps some of them are. But the truth is that floating requires incredible bravery, along with a deep sense of reality. In reality, we are all randomized, thrown together more or less arbitrarily. Floaters know that, and they make the best...
...finding out what that person might be able to contribute to your life and you to his or hers, whether it's just someone to exercise with or someone who will alter your future dreams. But to find that friendship, you have to be ready--and willing--to float...