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...students will have a chance to visit Harvard on the weekend of April 25th-27th, commonly known as "pre-Frosh weekend...
...Kwan stuck to completely different schedules at Nagano, setting off rampant speculation about whose off-ice routine would triumph. Journalists handicapped the event in favor of Lipinski because she was so carefree and relaxed. She was all over the Olympic village, taking to dorm life faster than a pre-frosh. She celebrated Picabo Street's super-G win ("Isn't it neat!"), updated her Website at Surf Shack (one entry of Tara's Diary had six exclamation points in 11 sentences) and made stickers on the day of the finals. "I know when to relax," she said...
What of a college-wide initiative for lower grades? If you thought financial aid, large classes and shoddy advising were driving pre-frosh away, wait 'til Harvard is known as the cruelest place in the Ivy League. And besides, with the pressures students place on graders to give high marks and the grading expectations inculcated in high schools everywhere, such an initiative would be doomed to failure...
...course sections, in group tutorials, in restaurants, in dining halls, in lines for washing machines, in the audiences at concerts and at other events. We remember them as "The Girl Who Always Wears My Purple Shirt" or "Fifth-Floor Lamont Guy" or "Laundry-Basket Boy" or "Pre-Frosh." We might even remember when we first saw them. They are the people who shopped that seminar with us last semester but didn't take it, the people who waited in line with us for an interview but didn't get the job, the people who auditioned with us for a play...
...unstruck. They are the could-have-beens of our college careers. Maybe someday one of them will discover a cure for some disease, and then people will say to us, "Laundry-Basket Boy just rid the world of multiple sclerosis. Weren't you in college together?" Or maybe Pre-Frosh could have been a great friend of ours. We'll never know. What's embarrassing is not that we aren't part of their lives, but rather that they aren't part of ours. We see them everywhere and have never bothered to talk to them, and now we simply...