The Newlywed Game

The honeymoon is officially over. Two months have passed since freshman ingenues waved goodbye to Mom and Dad and hello to roommate X. With decorating no longer a priority and the novelty of dorm life behind them, roommates are beginning to stop being polite and start getting real. FM probes: How much do you know about your roommate?

Brendan J. Connell ’05

Jason S. Andersen ’05

FM: Describe your roommate in three words.

Brendan on Jason: Southern, redneck, soccer.

Jason on Jason: Southern, nice, cool.

Jason on Brendan: easy-going, cool, nice.

Brendan on Brendan: goofy, wicked smaht.

FM: What’s your roommate’s claim to fame?

B on J: All-Star soccer player, pictured in The Crimson like five times in the first month of school

J on J: Soccer.

J on B: Best graduate to ever come out of Boston Latin!

B on B: It was going here—but everyone here goes here.

FM: Where is he on Wednesday at 3:00pm?

B on J: Playing Zelda and listening to classic rock.

J on J: Heading down to soccer practice.

J on B: No class, so probably in the room.

B on J: Home, playing old-school Nintendo.

FM: Any weird idiosyncracies?

B on J: He brought a vacuum cleaner, a duster and an ironing board to school.

J on J: I don’t think so.

J on B: He listens to U2—a lot.

B on B: I am an idiosyncrasy.

FM: What is his least favorite thing about Harvard?

B on J: Expos.

J on J: Social scene, too far from home, workload.

J on B: The workload (especially Expos).

B on B: Expos.

FM: Most commonly issued phrase from his mouth?

B on J: “American by birth, Southern by the grace of God.”

J on J: “You can take a boy out of Ol’ Dixieland, but you’ll never take Ol’ Dixie from a boy.” (Lynard Skynard)

J on B: “Awesome!”

B on B: “Wicked fuckin pizza.”