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...time may come when you will have to put your pre-frosh to sleep. This decision Will almost certainly make you the most unpopular person in your blocking group. Explain to the more mature blockmates that your pre-frosh is in a lot of pain and that it will be for the best. Younger ones may have to be told that the pre-frosh is "going away" and "will be back in September" until they are ready to hear the truth...
...even on the topic of my first name yet. Relentlessly misspelled, mispronounced and misgendered, my first name has been an experience. Example 1: A recent job rejection letter addressed to Mr. Sugi Ganeshananthan. (It's hanging over my bed, the "Mr." circled in red.) Example 2: This past pre-frosh weekend, I went to dinner with three friends from high school. We were at Uno's, and the hostess had an abnormal amount of energy. The restaurant was crowded with a mixture of what looked like prefrosh and frosh. It had been a long day and we were hungry. "Four...
...Memories, like a comer of my mind...scattered pictures, of the way we were..." Every third weekend of April, Harvard undergrads are made to feel between five and 10 years older, as ambitious, idealistic and clueless pre-frosh arrive. Their arrival hearkens back to days of yesteryear, when we were pre-frosh and had bright futures ourselves...
Juri E. Henley-Cohn '00 was victim to a classic pre-frosh dilemma in April 1996. The bed-switch. "My pre-frosh host was a good childhood friend of mine," he explains. "She had three other roommates, one of which had a friend visiting that weekend. The roommate and her visiting friend were both going to leave early the next morning, so they decided to sleep on the common room futon (where l was supposed to have slept). This way, they would not wake anyone when they got up." Unfortunately, Juri ended up sleeping in the roommate...
Matthew F. Delmond '00 has a story about one of his blockmates that he couldn't wait to blab. The tale revolves around another perennial pre-frosh dilemma: the guest bathing. "She was getting out of the shower--naked--when her host's boyfriend walked into the bathroom. l guess he just stared at her in shock for like five seconds...