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...Adams, and even that is debatable, there is no better place to be positioned geographically. Lowell is steps away from another House in every direction, and residents also have exclusive access to the House's back gate. Need to make a beeline for Eliot, Kirkland, or Winthrop? As a Lowellian, there's no need to walk all the way around Lowell like the plebian masses—just go out the back...
...Housing Day for a second time cheating the system? Maybe. But was it worth it? You betcha.Junior year found me in Lowell. Ah, the model House of the entire system. As a transfer, I had the luck of ending up in a senior double (while my fellow natural-born Lowellian juniors still languished in maze-like walkthroughs). Once again I quickly adjusted to the quirks of a new home. In no time I had made friends with scuttling critters and mastered the art of sleeping through Sunday morning’s bells. I was spoiled with Master?...
...Once a Lowellian, always a Lowellian...
Lowell also enforces interhouse dining restrictions, and during opera season won't let anyone who is not a Lowellian eat there, which sucks. (As an aside: we at FlyBy think interhouse dining rules are the best real-life example of what Mankiw taught you in Ec 10 about the evils of trade restrictions. So far Lowell, Adams, Kirkland, Winthrop, Leverett, Eliot and Quincy have rules keeping people out. If you somehow manage to have friends in the 11/12 of Harvard that doesn't live in your house, you're screwed when 6 p.m. rolls around. Who gains from this insanity...
Hath not a Lowellian have eyes? Hath not a Lowellian hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you deny us interhouse guests, do we not grumble? If you steal our hot water for tea, do we not thirst? And If you wrong us, shall we not revenge...