Word: prefrosh
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Planning on hosting a prefrosh this year? Picturing an idyllic weekend filled with activity fairs and library tours? After hearing these stories, you might just reconsider...
...prefrosh went out partying. When she came back, she was really drunk and decided to puke. But instead of puking in the toilet, she decided to puke on the floor to the left of the toilet. Then, she left a note thanking only...
...walking towards Currier with my prefrosh host when a water balloon came sailing down from a roof and landed three feet to the right of us. All of a sudden, we heard this voice from above shout, “Welcome to the OC, bitch...
...There is little room for this realization, though, amongst the believers. Furtive questions among prefrosh about the possible ambiguities of Harvard life are chalked up to sabotage or schadenfreude. It is akin to the sort of jingoism sometimes displayed by recently-minted American citizens eager to assert the superiority of their new citizenship over all others. In such a fashion, expectations inflate faster than Weimar currency; students’ assumptions will be heading into next September outrageous and out-of-touch. The fallout is obvious: a body of students for whom the most delicate disappointment of perfection constitutes universal depression...
...store. Certainly there is nothing wrong with a measure of overeagerness and naïveté. But is it possible that the thing which places these utopian expectations so wildly off-mark is their existence in the first place? Or, put differently: do the unmoored expectations of Harvard prefrosh reflexively cancel themselves...