Word: roomming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...luck is beginning to wane. Fortunately, I find a Deep Springs College transfer named Zach. I chat about life on the farm, sharing the stories of my Kentucky roots. Tad begins his work for the night, snapping photos of the confused but amiable and cozy crowd in the room...
...hear the chants as soon as we leave the elevator. When we walk in, the scene is much more like a WCW wrestling match than a suite common room. Guys in all varieties of dress and blood alcohol levels line the walls and floor, chanting riotously. We have walked into the middle of the "Most Eligible Bachelorette Contest." The ladies dance, sing and are encouraged to strip. Dan Ratner had won the earlier bachelor competition, allegedly baring extensive flesh in the process. When the ladies competition ends (Melissa Coleman, whose "talent" and strategy had been to to cook the food...
...Back to Winthrop, to a super-nice sophomore room on the top floor of the D entry, where the women of the Radcliffe Choral Society are having a quiet Friday night gathering. They are generous with their food, tasty Nutter Butter cookies and Doritos. We tell them about our Spin the Bottle escapade, and they eagerly offer detailed instructions on how to play a "card game" known as "suck and blow." With a chorus of all females and just a single male photographer, however, the game will have to be saved for another night...
...stop in my room to pick up the self-proclaimed Team Tag-along--my blockmates Shelli L. Calland and Kyle R. Freeny. Up until now, they've been maintaining a home base in my room, tidying up the common room should Tad return, and selecting ideal outfits for the night ahead. They offer moral support and general enthusiasm for the final 10 parties, and they excitingly join our troop...
...enter the party, sign into the guest book and find ourselves faced with a choice of a jazz quartet in one room or dancing in a green-lit other room. We head into the green-lit room, and Tad informs me that I "better make some friends fast," as he disappears into the crowd. I dance a bit with Team Tag-along and then leave them to meet some authentic MIT frat brothers, whom I approach as "Mambo #5" fills the murky air from the party's fog machine. Eventually I end up in the DJ Room, where the usual...