Word: midnighters
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First-years enjoy post-midnight revelry more than anyone else. Released from the 8 a.m. wakeup time of their high school years, the typical first-year is like a kid in a candy store. He or she has no curfew, dozens of new best friends, and of course, there’s no teacher calling attendance in the morning. To capture the freshness and vigor of this short-lived epoch in a Harvard life, FM visited with a typical entryway that, according to residents, never sleeps...
...could walk by University Lutheran Homeless Shelter without ever noticing it, unless you stopped to wonder who was taking a smoke break outside the church basement near midnight. From November to April, the country’s only student-run homeless shelter welcomes guests in from the cold to occupy a limited number of beds. I’m joining the overnight volunteers, who arrive at 11 p.m. and take turns sleeping ’til it’s time to make breakfast...
Exactly three customers come in. For most of the time, with only two men on the floor—a cashier and a security guard—the two-story pharmacy feels creepy and lonely. As Assistant Store Manager Michael Madden explains, “The midnight shift is always very quiet. 90% of our customers at this hour are students, always to buy food...
...begins to rise, Madden packs up. “I’m sorry I couldn’t offer you a more exciting evening,” he says, as he stacks Coke bottles. “I rarely work the midnight shift, and it’s really a very different world. Students are used to being up this late, but for me, it means that I have to go home exhausted at 6 a.m. to my wife and two kids...
...with DJs Jim L. Fingal ’05 and Chris A. Kukstis ’05. In addition to their Eliot house suite, the roommates also share the midnight-2 a.m. timeslot Thursday nights, playing what Jim calls their “dilectic” contrast of emotional post-hardcore/noise (Jim) and pop/indie (Chris). The two switch off sets, changing it up with a peppering of almost-funny banter. They’re fun to listen to and even more fun to hang out with in the studio, as they run in circles “pulling?...