Word: halle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First-years in three Matthews Hall suites awoke yesterday morning to find that their common rooms had been burglarized while they were sleeping...
When I was a first-year living in Weld, I had five roommates and four pseudo-roommates. The pseudo-roommates were collectively known as "The Boys Across the Hall," because most of them lived in the suite about two feet from our open door...
...there's anything that was just like it was supposed to be, it was the Boys Across the Hall. They fixed our computers, and we taught them how to swing dance in their common room before moving on to the master classes in Leverett dining hall. When we got back from Thanksgiving break, they called us over to see the real live Christmas tree they'd decorated, and on Valentine's Day we found collective flowers from them in our common room. In a happily self-deprecating running joke, we invented an imaginary sitcom based on our less-than...
...randomization spring. My most beloved non-blockmates were far-flung, from the Quad to Quincy to Dunster, and we joined in the promises to visit and plans for biweekly meals that filled the Annenberg air. But I was worried, and I was most worried about the Boys Across the Hall, with whom our relationship had been dependent on proximity. We had never had to make plans, or even to make an effort beyond three steps or a yell. It wasn't that I didn't think we valued the relationships enough to make that effort, only that I didn...
...glimpse of the great big truth that you can't go back again. So I wondered, will we ever be able to reclaim even a little bit of what was such a huge part of that first year? Is this the end for us and the Boys Across the Hall...