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This year's Regatta will most likely not resemble the pastoral print I have hanging on my wall. The tents that line the banks of the Charles seem more suited to house refugees than vendors. And the hordes of people crowding Memorial Drive will no doubt make a walk to Mount Auburn Cemetery seem that much more attractive...
...weekend has potential. Perhaps it is the sudden, overwhelming nature of the event that makes it more of a trauma than a pleasure for Harvard students. Perhaps if the races were spread out over a few days, and if, unlike that party my freshman year, the Regatta didn't seem like it was over as soon as it began, we all might enjoy it a little more...
Dissatisfaction with the prospects for the regatta weekend runs amok among Harvard students, many of whom are not thrilled about Cambridge's temporary population explosion...
...also have the regatta. While they tend to get lost amid the noise and the drink, the boat races are nominally why most people come to the Head of the Charles. Cheering on your friends for their willingness to rise at 5 a.m. every morning and launch themselves on an icy river is a worth while experience, even if you have to dodge all of Milton Academy...
...there is more to the Regatta than vomit and urine and feces on the pristine banks of the Charles. It's a feeling of pride. After all, what other university in the nation finds itself in the center of such, uh, festivities? Where else can students find themselves the subject of so much interrogeration by security guards just so that they can get into their own rooms...