I present to you the Class of 2008
Above, the illustrious words of Dean David DeVries, who gave the pep talk in the house last summer, from this morning's Arts and Sciences Dean's convocation.
Other fun things from the first part of orientation weekend:
They sing the Alma Mater at EVERY event, each time with a different choral ensemble. That's how they advertise.
According to our illustrious interim president, in his President's Convocation speech, the peregrin falcon was endangered by DOT (yeah, and they really messed up the highway system, too!).
I am now somewhat well-known on campus for two reasons. First, my own initiative has ingratiated myself to several Deans and Directors of Undergraduate Studies. Second, the Dean of Student Affairs, who was in charge of orientation, overreacted to a question I e-mailed to her. As a result, "the Telluride freshman" was explicitly mentioned in orientation training for all the orientation leaders. Thus, whenever I mentioned that I didn't live on the North Campus, the OL(s) would remark "Oooooh, you're the Telluride freshman."
Other fun things from the first part of orientation weekend:
They sing the Alma Mater at EVERY event, each time with a different choral ensemble. That's how they advertise.
According to our illustrious interim president, in his President's Convocation speech, the peregrin falcon was endangered by DOT (yeah, and they really messed up the highway system, too!).
I am now somewhat well-known on campus for two reasons. First, my own initiative has ingratiated myself to several Deans and Directors of Undergraduate Studies. Second, the Dean of Student Affairs, who was in charge of orientation, overreacted to a question I e-mailed to her. As a result, "the Telluride freshman" was explicitly mentioned in orientation training for all the orientation leaders. Thus, whenever I mentioned that I didn't live on the North Campus, the OL(s) would remark "Oooooh, you're the Telluride freshman."
posted by Michael Barany at 11:13 AM
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and everyone here has a really scary inferiority complex for Harvard
My first meal with some other housemembers was falaffel. It was excellent. The point, as I'm sure you've figured out by now, is that Dean DeVries misspoke in a rather fundamental and hillarious way. Perhaps he recalled my question to him of the previous day about early graduation and was speaking to me alone. More likely, he was making up for last year's convocation, which he reportedly didn't attend. Most likely, he had an unfortunate moment of fleet-mindedness.
Hopefully, Paul, your brain doesn't live up to your sarcasm. It would be a terrible shame.
Love y'all big time!
Michael
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