Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Middlesex County is in many places moreaffluent than other parts of the Boston area. But,though across the river in Suffolk County therequirements are less, McGill says a living wagethere is $7.52 per hour for a single adult, and$18.54 per hour for an adult with one child...
...Quad would force me to wake up at 5 a.m. so that I would have enough time to make the three-mile trek to class. I recoiled at the thought of constantly waiting for dilapidated shuttles driven by maniacal drivers. I worried about missing parties by the River and late-night runs to Tommy's. In short, I didn't want to become disconnected from the rest of the campus...
...Understandably, the average first-year will more readily identify with physical, tangible characteristics than with vague terms like "community" and "spirit." Indeed, viewing houses merely in terms of room size and location is so prevalent among first-years that often all 12 houses are sorted into a simplistic Quad-River dichotomy. Those who defend the Quad say the extra living space "justifies" the removed location...
...this dichotomy is false and potentially harmful. Boiling houses down to the sum of their tangible parts trivializes the more important intangible characteristics. Despite being situated further from the river, dedicated Quad intramural athletes still head down in droves to compete. Rooms in the Quad might be larger, but that doesn't mean residents won't make it out to the lawn on a spring day to picnic or play ball. Each hous, Quad or otherwise, has a unique character that transcends its mere physical constructs. A house's architecture might be grand, but a house's true grandeur comes...
...love to mock the Quad. Indeed, the light-hearted River-Quad banter which colors the annual housing lottery is usually amusing and benign. The danger arises, however, when we mislead others into believing house life can be reduced to such simple terms as location and room size. In the wake of randomization, it becomes all the more important for each class to enter their house with an enthusiasm not just to live there, but to belong there. Only then can house spirit survive and flourish...