Word: hotspots
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...your love life less than satisfactory? Well, apparently there’s a new hotspot for similarly minded singletons: Boston’s Logan Airport...
Attention students: Lamont Third Floor, Starbucks and Widener Reading Room are so passé. The new trend in studying: Thayer Elevator. At least that’s the hotspot for Penn B. Lawrence ’08. “I just get stuff done in there,” Lawrence says. “You just give yourself a rule that you can’t leave until you’re done...
While gleefully jetting off to the Harvard Square hotspot that suits your fancy—because it is, after all, still shopping period, primetime for procrastination—one sees, in the distance, a familiar silhouette. Relishing the fact that you’re no longer a first-year and have a dependable web of college friends, you prepare to reopen the lines of communication for yet another year. As you approach your friend, the glimmer of recognition begins. You confidently make eye contact, and shine a megawatt, albeit goofy, smile. As you begin to raise your...
...Saturday night--and your social life currently centers on Boston, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia or San Francisco--a new service called Dodgeball might be of assistance. After you sign up (free at dodgeball.com) you can text-message the service with @ followed by the name of the local hotspot where you happen to be hanging out. If there's a fellow Dodgeballer in the vicinity who has identified you or one of your connections as a friend, you'll get a message sharing that person's coordinates. You can also use Dodgeball to broadcast messages to all your buddies...
...campus, it is equally important that Harvard work with the city of Cambridge to light Cambridge Common. The area in and around the poorly-lit municipal park has been a crime hotspot for years. Harvard students, on their way to and from the Quad, frequently traverse the park at night—and are not likely to stop. That the Common is outside of the College’s official jurisdiction should not make it untouchable; where students’ safety is at stake, the College has an obligation...