Word: helling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outdoor black tie affair on October 11, as partial compensation for holding the bulk of the 350th celebration while undergrads were out of town. I saw it for what it was: a tail-between-the-legs attempt to avoid student criticism and smooth our ruffled feathers. But what the hell, I'm always up for a good party...
...talking about freshman hell, an almost indescribable experience that affects everyone differently. Some of those who pass through Harvard's Hellgate drown themselves in a synapseblowing miasma of drugs and alcohol. Others slit their wrists, or jump off Anderson Bridge...
...Freshman hell. My story is one of these...
...elements of freshman hell emerge equally from the individual and from the University--an unfortunate mix of the normal anxieties of adolescence and the sadistic impersonality of this place. If you're emotionally vulnerable, personally naive, or just unlucky, Harvard will chew you up and spit you out like the insignificant piece of teen-age gristle...
...complete exposition of my frosh disasters would be only slightly longer than War and Peace, so I will just touch on the highlights, the "Nine Circles of Freshman Hell" that await the unwary traveler. True, I missed out on three of the circles; perhaps that's why I am still around to tell the tale...