Word: frosh
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...decided as a hopeful pre-frosh that college would be all about assimilation, even if it killed me. After years of being held back by a family a tad too eccentric for my hometown’s comfort, I was ready to joyfully jump into the mainstream. With my creepy ability to gauge the general atmosphere of a place and then adopt it as my own, I decided even before my freshman year that Harvard was brimming with scrappy people who like to go hiking and recycle plastics and give and receive head lamps as gifts. Yet one rather large...
...Though he had apprehensions about moving to the East Coast, Chen was “sold” when he visited as a pre-frosh...
...playing just some game online,” he says. “You’re playing for the sake of your loyalty to your school.” If so, Harvard kids better pull out those Crimson sweatshirts that have been rotting away in closets since Pre-Frosh Weekend: registration has begun, and it doesn’t look promising. “If it comes down to school spirit, I think we’re going to lose,” said Joseph S. Bechtold ’08, who has already registered...
...sophomore advising system signals the start of the semester in which I will make my concentration choice, I remember stopping by the English Department’s open house with my fellow pre-frosh over a year ago, only beginning to know what a concentration was. Amid the flyers and pamphlets, I wondered aloud to a department member why so much British fiction was required, and if that would be changing anytime soon. Her smile suddenly disappeared. “Well, it is English and American Literature…” she replied...
...wait any longer…” Sawlit says, trailing off. Hastrup finishes the sentence for her. “She would’ve said no.” But of course for Hastrup and Sawlit, who have been close since they first met during her pre-frosh weekend, their June 22 wedding in Foxborough, Mass., might just have been inevitable. Hastrup, a Fresno, Calif., native, had been smitten by the then-high school senior Sawlit ever since her appearance at a swim team party his freshman year at Harvard. “I saw her walk...