Word: froshes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...frosh weekend, García went around the campus asking several groups whether they’d help her start a mariachi band. Her main selling point was that it would be the first of its kind at any Ivy League university. To Garcia’s delight, Mariachi Veritas was performing by Cinco de Mayo of her freshman year...
...recent years, colleges across the country have begun working to challenge that longstanding tradition, revamping dining-hall menus and introducing classes on weight loss to combat unnecessary frosh noshing. At UC Santa Barbara, for instance, biology professor Diane Eardley introduced a freshman seminar called You Are What You Eat after observing what she calls a "second-year metamorphosis" among students. "The girls would come in gorgeous and come back 30 pounds heavier," explains Eardley, whose course is fully enrolled, with 10 students on the waiting list...
...color-coordinated bedding ensemble--pink sheets, pink pillows, pink comforter--which matched the pink shag rug and halogen lamp with the pink shade. The storage crates were solid pink; the trash can was decorated with hearts colored--you guessed it--pink. And who could forget the tiki lights every frosh needs? Not Monson. She remembered to pack those too. All told, the 18-year-old figures she spent about $3,000--half of it money she earned working summers and half of it from her parents--styling what is now a super-decked-out dorm room...
...such frosh got into a very public facebook profile war with one of his future classmates, which turned out to be a veiled UC campaign, as one of them had put “class president” on his profile, and the other one, wanting himself to be class president, thought it a bit presumptuous and attacked the first fellow, which escalated, and so on. By the time the school year started there existed a several paragraph back-and-forth ad hominem profile war between these two individuals. That’s showing ‘em what you?...
...choose at Harvard, or what social clique we belong to, we are consistently bombarded with the opportunity to connect to numerous fellow students. Whether it’s sharing notes for a class, chatting at a party, meeting through an extra-curricular, or clinging to each other during pre-frosh weekend, it’s imperative that we value these connections for the emotional stability they provide. At such a demanding institution, it’s the small experiences that you share with others that ensure your sanity...