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There were twelve of us--fewer males than females, a rarity among MIT peer groups--and we lived in a dorm called Next House. We procrastinated our problem sets by playing with Jessica's Play-Doh, Megan's Nerf fencing set and Kevin's keyboard. We ate dinner together at six every evening. We watched "Say Anything" over and over, just because Andrea liked it. We even staged our own formal, because Next House didn't have...
...tore down the basketball net and worst of all, gave my NFL bedsheets to charity. My pennants lay in a forlorn pile at the bottom of my closet. In their place, my father's diplomas hange with mocking pride. His desk rests serenely where I used to shoot Nerf hoops. My bed, remade and reeducated, is now his couch. It's not that I wanted a mausoleum, but did they have to paint over the height lines marked so carefully years before on the back of my door...
...cousin Omar and I, with a nerf ball and a wire hanger, turn those rainy, summer afternoons into international basketball tournaments...
...settled on a Nerf football...
...crimson-and-white Nerf football with "Harvard" written on it may not seem to be a worthwhile souvenir for four years of fandom, but buying it after my last home game gives it more significance than anything...