Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things that can be trivialized in the outside world are made to be a big deal at Harvard, such as academics or social problems, because we're in such a tight community," says Matthew S. Trent '00, who spent the fall studying in Amsterdam...
Trent, a sociology concentrator, noted that,while he might have liked to stay in Amsterdam fora full year, the demands of his concentration madethat impossible. At the same time, however, Trent,was quick to add that his department was verysupportive of his program of study and granted himthree concentration credits for his time abroad...
...Amsterdam taught me anything," Trent says,"It taught me to chill...
...mother threw it all away she's very neat person. When I left Ireland I was 17--I led a sort of wild existence--I traveled to all these different places. I always say I've cleaned bathrooms in every European capital in the world. I lived in Amsterdam, London, Paris and went to Israel, Egypt, and just kept traveling continuously. And all the time I would write, I had notebooks, and I'd never keep them because I was traveling. I think it was just the act of writing that I really enjoyed. I would write constantly...
...kind of place mother always warned you about. Buried in Boston's clubby Landsdowne St., Who's on First? is the college community's answer to south central Amsterdam. To find out exactly who is on first--and why they'd want to be there--FM sent two veteran writers to the trenches...