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...Angie D. Heo, Andrew J. Kin and Michael K. Thomas Tan of Cabot House; Andreea S. Balan, William H. Kitchens and Ciprian Manolescu of Currier House; Andrew J. Heckerling and David M. Shapiro of Eliot House; Peter Ciganik, David E. Landau, Kevin S. Schwartz, Shanyah A. Wang and Dorothy Weiss of Kirkland House; Michael A. Levin of Leverett House; Margaret S. Soper of Lowell House; Paola Y. Tartakoff of Mather House; Nadarajan Chetty of Pforzheimer House; Emma R. Burbank-Schmitt and Davesh Maulik of Quincy House; Jennifer Belli and Catherine M. Taylor of Winthrop House...
...Lane and Weiss agree that the discipline of ballet prepped them for the intellectual rigors of the Harvard atmosphere, but the social differences between the environments proved more striking. According to Lane, "Because of the nature of a ballet company, you're around the same people every day. You're in kind of this strange world and it's really hard to get out of it because you're dancing all the time. That was the one thing I loved about Harvard—Every day I would meet someone different...
...Upon entering Harvard, Weiss experienced a difficult self-identity transition. "It's hard to figure out my identity now. I had to switch from ‘yeah, she does okay in school but she's really a ballet dancer' to ‘she does ballet for fun, but she's really on her way to Hist...
...Whereas Santoro admits she was "educated" her freshman year, Lane jokes about they irony of her own experience: "In high school, all the guys I lived with were gay. So I knew a lot of guys, but it just wasn't working for me!" More adamant about her priorities, Weiss claims that finding a "normal boyfriend" was the main reason she chose Harvard. Clearly, normal is a relative term...
...physical changes associated with decreased time in the ballet studio, the women remain conflicted about their more mature bodies. According to Weiss, "When I look in the mirror sometimes, I don't recognize that body as mine. I did quit ballet because I wanted a normal woman's life...