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...with it. Most students don’t have an actual single bedroom (without walkthrough, without doubling up as the common room) until senior year. We’re forced to adjust to studying with a constant hum of background noise, with roommates moving in and out, with a neighbor??s radio blasting loud. The library isn’t much better, and if anyone can find a seat to study at a Square cafe at a decent hour, please let me know. I think the last time a seat became vacant at the Garage Starbucks...
...shock to the system when the basic fairness of the world is exposed for what it is—frankly, a big sham. Thou shalt not swindle thy shareholders out of their life savings, thou shalt not deceive the public about a major war, thou shalt not steal thy neighbor??s bicycle. When these commandments are broken, the real tragedy is to watch as the carefully painted drop cloths of Justice fall lifeless to the stage floor, unsupported by the strings of illusion. And in these moments, dealing with the loss of our faith in a just world...
These somewhat dubious delights aside, the place is still completely terrifying. Having finally pried the headphones away and worked through an acute case of coveting thy neighbor??s boyband-filled playlist (“Look, they even have the little-known trance remix of MmmBop!”), the only sound to be heard in the Reading Room is that of sheer productivity itself, or more specifically, the irritatingly incessant tapping of computer keyboards. Here is conclusive aural proof of the awesome industriousness of the surrounding scholars—a sound which invariably seems to increase in volume...
Katy R. Mahraj ’07, another member of Cozzens’ proctor group, views her neighbor??s hobby as evidence of a character that is upstanding, so to speak. “I think it’s very courageous,” she says. “It’s a true sign of masculinity.” Her roommate, Cecilia Castillo ’07, believes that Cozzens’ unicycling is a statement of personal individuality—or someone who bikes to his own drumbeat. “The unicycle...
...stay out of politics as much as possible,” said resident Dana T. Church, who was outside fixing his neighbor??s snow blower when Jessica R. Rosenfeld ’07 approached him with literature...