Word: prefrosh
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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It’s important to be creative with one’s prefrosh persona. Mine has been carefully crafted in advance. Starry-eyed Leslie O’Shea is as far from my urban, Visual and Environmental Science, Yale-deferred self as possible. But I kinda like...
...thing, she gets way more action. As a prefrosh, I’m receiving more male attention than in my entire freshman year. Right now I’m getting a hug from Mark. My research assistant Lauren E. Berk ’06 (’07 for tonight) and I had approached him and two of his friends, who immediately welcomed us to their table in Loker. Mark is biding his time: he wants to arrive “fashionably late” for the ice cream bash. I share my dual-school dilemma with the group. Anne...
Finally—blessedly—we’re at the ice cream. A prefrosh is scooping, and seemingly trying to pick up each girl by giving her scooping tips. A representative piece of advice is, “Go for the side, it’s softer that way.” I compliment him on his arm definition and ask where he learned these skills. Modestly, he chalks it up to life experience and “common sense.” While two excited prefrosh bust out their moves on an Annenberg table, we wander aimlessly...
...much as I want to mock the prefrosh, there’s something about their friendliness, the wide-eyed quality they have. It’s nice to be around people who are enthusiastically discussing their favorite books and what they want to study, rather than griping about Quantitative Reasoning requirements and unintelligible teaching fellows. It doesn’t hurt that Matt wants to major in English and is gushing about F. Scott Fitzgerald. “You have to love Gatsby,” he says with the authority only a prefrosh can muster. “Everyone...
...many Harvard shows is so awful is that there are too many of them. Why does the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club assume Harvard students can’t act, but any Harvard student with a pen and an application can direct? ...It’s nice to tell touring prefrosh that Harvard produces 80 plays a year, but if we get away from this ugly number-trumpeting we can really revive Harvard theater...