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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strictly speaking, this circle should be named Canaday Hell, after the den of architectural perversity masquerading as a freshman dorm. It's a little known fact that the building of both Canaday and Mather House was secretly funded by Yale...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Guide to Freshman Hell | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Because there are no easy outs from the second circle of hell, that's why. Those stuck there have three choices: getting a personality transplant, being extravagantly generous--buy everyone in your entryway a gram of coke!--or teaching yourself solitaire. As the president of a final club once remarked to me, "The meek might inherit the earth, but they won't get punched for the Porc...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Guide to Freshman Hell | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Circle 4. Roommate Hell...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Guide to Freshman Hell | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...aptly named Singles. My room had previously been occupied by someone with infectious hepatitis. Great, I thought. Strictly speaking, I had no roommates; but the eight gents on my floor who formed a bathroom unit, became one meta-rooming group. I never ventured fully into this circle of hell, living as I was in a sensory deprivation tank of a room...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Guide to Freshman Hell | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Circle 5. Romance Hell...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Guide to Freshman Hell | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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