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...When you're from the South, what exactly is so different about everything here? I'm interested in the idea of culture shock...
...Chanda: I think there definitely is some culture shock. Southern hospitality doesn't exist here. The pace of life here is somewhat faster than at home. But it's weird because I get adjusted to life here and everything seems slower...
...Jennifer: I think one of the reasons for the culture shock is just because we are the minority. I'm the first person from my high school to go to Harvard, so it's kind of weird when I'm at college. My roommate's from New York and there are 10 people from her high school here, everyone from her block comes to Harvard. So the culture shock is in part because essentially such a small percentage of the school comes from there. If you don't count Texas and Florida, that drastically reduces the number...
...black section and a white section. Pep rallies, sitting in classes-it was segregated. But I guess I never really noticed it that much because a lot of the classes I was in there weren't many black people. So coming up here, seeing the segregation didn't shock me that much. One thing I noticed is that even within the races, there's still segregation. You still have the African-Americans divided from the Africans divided from the Caribbeans. I assumed all the black people would be like me, it just amazed me that everyone's like, 'Yeah...
...reports of these types of gay activities on campus lean more towards fiction than fact. However, the shock factor is still there. Sex in the stacks or not, this is new and more exciting news. Happy Cruising...