Word: hookups
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...single. I had loose connections with some of the guys on my floor and one strong friendship. I was hopeful, though I knew that nothing is more difficult than infiltrating a group of friends. There are house rules, longstanding jokes first cracked at 4 a.m. in a Canaday hallway, hookup histories. After a couple of weeks, I felt like Jack Bauer in 24, learning to blend in and snoop around for clues—that girl, who stopped in last night, she was his first time two years ago, but things didn’t end well. I make...
...writers’ meetings work just like the real world,” he says—complete with endless discussions over each hookup, breakup, and trip to the Quad. Th\eir perfectionism seems to have paid off.“When I see characters from Ivory Tower on the streets of Cambridge I flip out,” says devoted fan Danielle R. Sassoon ’08. “It is such a good drama and amazing quality television...
...with the death of dating and the rise of hookup culture respectively mourned and marveled at in the pages of such arbiters of culture as The New York Times Magazine, women like that girl in my mom’s freshman hall have become the norm. And while my mother says this girl’s sexual self-expression was a kind of political project, women at Harvard today entertain overnight guests with different intentions...
Many students would hesitate to thwart a potential hookup; after all, nobody wants to be accused of “cock-blocking.” But consider: by intervening in a sketchy situation, you are not preventing good sex; you are preventing a possible sexual assault. The absolute worst that can happen if you intervene is that your friend will be angry. Contrast this with what might happen if you don’t: someone might be raped and traumatized for the rest of his or her life...
With all these virtual hookup joints, online dating is connecting more than just singles looking for love. It's also bridging the generation gap between some grandparents and grandchildren. "My granddaughter left me a message one night complaining that I had so many more dates than she did," said a 73-year-old Floridian who goes by the name Classy Lady on JDate.com Dubbing herself "the hottest gal in Boca," she teased her granddaughter about her abundant suitors and her nights on the town...