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...Puy considers Harvard, and particularly his first year, his Never Never Land, his last connection to youthful innocence and energy. “I can’t tell you how depressed I am to be a senior,” he says. He then talks for more than 15 minutes about how depressed he is to be a senior...
...There’s the very real worry about what I’m going to do after senior year,” he says. “But I’m too caught up with what it means to be in senior year.” Du Puy should be working on his thesis, but instead enjoys 3 a.m. frisbee games in the snow and other luxuries of college life. “Being in senior year focuses your mind on doing all these things that you meant to,” he says...
...making a window seat, getting certified to use the telescope on top of the Science Center, sculling on the Charles, writing short stories and handing in papers on time. “I am so emphatically somebody who does not have my act together,” Du Puy says. He is totally serious...
...have his act together, but Du Puy is sure there are seniors out there who think he’s a fairly strange act. “I suspect I have some notoriety,” he admits. This may be due to his insistence on wearing shorts, no matter what the weather, or his constant singing and whistling. To clarify, Du Puy wears shorts only for the comfort and convenience, and not to make a statement. Du Puy doesn’t take himself too seriously, which is one reason why he sees his future as so wide open...
More from the quirkiness department: Rick Du Puy, described by some as an old-fashioned polymath for his concurrent interests in math, music theory and philosophy, betrayed the extent of his nostalgia for days past by ordering a tall glass of milk. Krish Subrahmanian, the Class of 2003’s first class marshal, also displayed self-assured innocence in his drink selection when he requested a Shirley Temple to the jaw-dropped surprise of the waitress. As she continued down the length of the table, though, she was soon fighting back an onslaught of drink pleas...