Word: frats
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Focus, Sam. You are at a frat party.” With that beautifully written command, it is clear we have taken another trip to teen movie land...
...gymnast and his family, the depths come when you work your whole life for a single moment only to clang off the runway and into the scorer's table like a tipsy frat boy. During the all-around final on the most crushing apparatus in gymnastics, the vault, Hamm's weary legs couldn't support his landing, and he stumbled off the mat. A lousy 9.137 score dropped him to 12th place in the competition, with only two events to go. "I thought maaaybe I could win a bronze," says Hamm...
...failed to anticipate the worst of times—the house infighting that inevitably develops out of the very different lives my friends leave. Quick: What do you get when you mix two frat boys and four Crimson editors...
...from so-called quiet hours (I thought I left those behind 10 years ago), to rules about having people over, to the cleanliness of the house, to what food was served and when, to how we would split the bills. Was the house throwing too many parties? Were the frat boys taking over the living room? Was the Harvard contingent unfriendly and antisocial? In other words, we found a way to bicker over just about everything. Some of these were stupid, others were legitimate; just about all were intractable...
...also not stunned that my two frat-boy high school friends lead slightly more party-hearty lives than my crowd at Harvard. But I figured that we—or at least I—would have no trouble making sacrifices to make the arrangement work...