Word: weekends
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Interrupting the routine are a few marquee social events. The Adams House Masquerade on Halloween weekend succeeds in drawing huge costumed crowds. Head of the Charles, a regatta weekend in the fall, is more fun for the legions of tourists than the students they inconvenience. And while it's a shadow of its former self, the Harvard-Yale Game in November is one time you'll see a real outpouring of school spirit...
...when you peel away the intensity, your fellow Harvard men and women are surprisingly normal. You're just as likely to bond with your peers this weekend over "Saved by the Bell" and Molly Ringwald, as philosophy or politics...
...Crimson's sense of justice is severely misplaced. The action of the federal government in Miami on Easter weekend was not a victory for a boy and his father but a victory for the dark forces of totalitarianism...
...than occasionally necessary. Two years ago almost to this very day, I wrote a nostalgic column, which I now realize that as a sophomore I had no business writing. I was concerned that I had completed almost half my Harvard experience, and after hosting several pre-frosh for the weekend, I felt old. I wrote, "Their enthusiasm for all things new, like the ice cream bash and their first a cappella jam of thousands to come seemed this year more alien to me as a jaded sophomore. I started waxing wistfully about the passing years...
...idea what I was talking about. Some strict editor should have stopped me. And while I have only slightly more of an idea of what I'm talking about two years later, at least I have the aura, however mistaken, of senior wisdom around me. This weekend is pre-frosh weekend for the Class of 2004, so I've been self-indulgent with the hope of helping others and compiled a list, with the help of friends, of Things to Do at Harvard as an Undergraduate. For those who make the (right) decision to come to Cambridge next fall...