Word: prefrosh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tomorrow is an important day. No, it's not that the prefrosh are coming (a realization some-what similar to the idea in 1775 that the British were coming). It's not even that it's the second to the last Friday in April and we are finally within striking distance of the end of the year. No, April 23 is significant because it's the Bard's birthday. That's right, folks, William Shakespeare, the man himself, the poet and playwright to end all poets and playwrights, turns 435 tomorrow...
...prefrosh's opinion of fair Harvard: "What say these young ones?" ("King John...
...skeptics who believe that this malaise among teens is universal, I offer contrary evidence in the form of Harvard's annual prefrosh weekend, which begins this Friday. When prefrosh arrive this weekend, all of us would do well to watch them carefully, and I do not mean with derision. Despite the prefrosh herd mentality that makes this weekend amusing for jaded upperclass students, it cannot be denied that a sense of uncertainty, excitement, and eagerness for what is to follow is most evident on the faces of those who are new to Harvard's campus. This fall, these students will...
During Pre-Frosh Weekend in 1995, two Harvard Medical School students lured a prospective College student to a party near the Longwood campus. Slipping heavy sedatives into the prefrosh's drink, the physicians-in-training then dragged him to a laboratory classroom, removed his kidneys for sale to an illegal organ-donation agent, and placed his kidney-less body in a bathtub packed with ice in a motel room in Allston. The unsuspecting high school senior woke up just in time to follow the instructions, written in lipstick on his chest: "Call 9-1-1 or you will...
Petrified. The worst part about committing said crime--the attention backfires. My fellow students would nudge each other, laughing and pointing at me as I pass by. I would become an urban legend prefrosh hosts would tell their young'uns about. People would become terrified to smoke with me. But worst of all, I would become the butt of bad kiosk puns: "The kiosks aren't the only things that are smokin'! Come see the Din and Tonics, Friday night...