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...cinematic as I'd expected it to be. It wasn't the late nights of card games and deep talks I recognized from coming-of-age movies and my parents' sepia-toned reminiscences of their own time here, and it certainly wasn't Animal House (surprise, surprise). More often than not, it was a bunch of people trying just a little bit too hard--to find the party, to have fun at the party, to "participate" in section, to enjoy the apparently brilliant lectures, to feel like we had the complete college life of which we and all our friends...
...often, I've had the experience of finding that a certain group dynamic cannot be recreated out of context: that my FOP group never felt the same at "reunions" as it did in the woods, that the people who'd felt like soulmates at summer camp had less to say to each other when united at a pizza place in October. This doesn't undermine the intensity and reality of those connections in the moment--in a way it makes them and their moment more wonderfully singular--but it does provide a sobering glimpse of the great big truth that...
...parted ways, we are all pleasantly immersed in our post-Weld worlds. The dynamic has never been quite restored, but it is always so great to see them. The other night we had a reunion dinner which was lots of fun, evoking vow upon vow to "do this more often." Will we? It's not like we haven't made that promise before. But here we are, at the start of a new year, a couple of weeks from the first big paper, and hope springs eternal. Maybe it's best to just let these things go, but at dinner...
...suggestion comes in the wake of the Adams decision enacted this semester to ban interhouse diners, due to excessive crowding during peak hours. Students in the Quad are especially affected by this restriction, as classes often leave them far from home...
Behind a gray house on a little street in West Cambridge, the asters and chrysanthemums are blooming in Mary Maples Dunn's garden. Herbs like tarragon and oregano grow in a small plot. Dunn often wakes early to tend the plants, her principal hobby...