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Remember the awkwardness of the ice cream bash and the frantic search for Tercentenary Theatre? It seems these confident go-getters actually enjoyed freshman week. While others stressed about their Spanish placement test, the savvy marshals were working the room, or rather, the yard. But they didn’t stop with freshman week. As Monique says, “this meeting and greeting session lasted for the better part of the year.” It helps to have a semi-notorious entryway too. Pat proudly recalls that “the fifth-floor Thayer boys” were...
...Frantic parents streamed back from work to pick up their children from area schools. As protective police helicopters hovered, residents shut themselves inside. Says Sherri Long, whose daughter Staci is a Tasker student: "People who needed to get prescriptions waited. We've got tapes due back at Blockbuster, and we'll just pay the fines...
...this Saturday night, the restaurant was deftly crammed to capacity, with an additional 20 or so people spilling out onto the sidewalk, mostly cliquish undergraduates. Spirited conversation thrummed. And yet, despite the thick sheet of ambient noise and constricted seating, it slenderly avoided becoming just another frantic Oriental eatery with flagrant fluorescence and brusque service. Dark wood panelling. Sparing, warm lighting. And a host of perfectly poised waiters dexterously weaving in and out of the non-spaces between tables, taking orders and refilling glasses with a bit too much of a graceful flourish...
...Pier One to open. I wanted to buy new cushions for the chairs in my room. Because I chose to sleep late, I hadn’t eaten at Cabot and was enjoying an egg and cheese and coffee while I made flashcards for Spanish Bab at a semi-frantic pace...
...while the movie set was certainly new for the students involved (none had prior acting or movie-extra experience), they were less than enamored with the frantic atmosphere. “These people took their jobs more seriously than you could imagine,” said Mager, who witnessed some of the on-set preparations. “Some of the extras even had agents. It was pretty humorous...