Word: prefrosh
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...just one short week, more than 800 high school seniors will flock to Harvard looking for a good time and a good taste of college life during their prefrosh weekend...
...least offensive. "I hated everywhere else I went," Thomas says. "I never thought in a million years that I would come [to Harvard]." At first, Thomas was snobbish about attending Harvard, but an experience at Filene's Basement one morning during that weekend changed her mind. Another prefrosh, annoyed at Thomas's rants about Harvard's elitism, laid into her. "It's Harvard, it's Harvard! How could you turn down Harvard? What makes you think you're so special that you're too good for this school?" Thomas thought about it and realized that maybe she wasn...
...crowd of prospective prefrosh, perhaps; but they probably won't be moving into Hollis and Holworthy for quite a few years...
...technically literate. As of press time, there are only about 25 first-years who have not yet activated their accounts; that means over 98 percent of the class of '99 is using e-mail. Many of these students are not just aware, they are savvy. At last year's prefrosh weekend, the Harvard Computer Society thought it would try to dazzle these incoming first-years with the World Wide Web, a stunt which always seemed to impress parents. But the pre-frosh turned the tables; almost all who attended the demonstration had not only seen the web, but already...
...bring a sleeping bag for all the overnight guests, random prefrosh, guests of your roommate, visiting friends from other colleges...