Word: upperclassfolk
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...Despite the singularity of the occasion, we upperclassfolk will readily recognize the premise of President Faust’s enthusiasm: from the politician production-lines at the IOP to chronic Wall Street recruitment fairs, Harvard bombards us with the message that we’re brilliant. Whether as future intellectuals, entrepreneurs, reformists, or even revolutionaries, we will, for better and not for worse, be tomorrow’s leading lights...
...Even if we retain a friend or significant other or roommate or two, all of us who are graduating this spring must face the fact that we will, by and large, soon find ourselves in somewhat randomly assigned homes where it will be incumbent upon us to meet the upperclassfolk and deal amicably with whatever neighbors we might have. Our destiny is sealed. As Weiss has posited, we are all floaters...
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