Word: fritschel
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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Like Finkelstein, Megan K. Fritschel '94 doesn't mind being labelled anal retentive...
...doesn't bother me. It means I get my work done. I don't think of it as a derogatory term," says Fritschel, though she prefers to describe her set pattern of pre-bedtime activities as "a habitual ritual...
...Fritschel, a cross country runner, says she faithfully performs the same routine--"sit ups, toe lifts, contacts out, brush and floss, go-to bed-early-because-I-have-to-go-to breakfast-or-my-day-isn't-complete-without-it"--every night...
Leonid Fridman '92, president of SONG, says Fritschel and Finkelstein should be proud. In fact, he insists that he and his fellow nerds are labeled anal "only by our enemies." The epithet has derived from "pure envy by those orally fixated Harvard students," he says, explaining, "Anal people tend to succeed in life. Others are just envious. It's nothing else...
...while their unusual habits may be dismissed as annoying or merely amusing by non-ARPs, anal retentive people may soon be ready to answer Fritschel's rallying call: "Anal people unite. Make the world a neat and organized place...