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...years at Harvard, there has been nothing more disturbingly asinine than the yarn game we were forced to play during prefrosh weekend. Given a ball of garishly colored yarn and an equally garishly colored yarn necklace, we were told to meet as many people as possible, keeping track by tying yarn around the necklace of each new acquaintance...
Ostensibly, the goal was to make a few new friends. But after an hour of eagerly lining up to exchange our name and hometown for technicolor yarn, many of us quickly became nauseous. Friendship, it became clear, was not about introducing yourself to everybody in sight...
...yarn during first-year orientation week, but the spirit of the game lived on. At Annenberg and in the Yard, we mindlessly mixed and mingled until finally, perhaps around November, the game finally ended. Not because it was replaced by a particular aversion to new friendships, but because most of us had settled comfortably into one or more meaningful social circles forged over time...
...vibrant House life really just about "integration"? Is the College capping blocking groups just so that it can force students to meet one another? It sounds like the yarn game...
...created social circles for the companionship of several hundred random residents is both silly and simple-minded. Social circles of varying sizes are an inevitable part of House and campus life. Eliminate them in the form of blocking and they will merely recreate themselves after subsequent rounds of the yarn game...