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THE NEW BATHROOM WALL.(bored-atlamont.com )(Website overview)
Most of the comments uttered at Harvard after the appointment of its new president, Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust, are probably lost to history. One exception is a conversation held recently at 12:35 A.M.:
Hail to the new president, What's her name again . . ., DR. FAUST, Faust Haus . . ., Harvard has made a Faustian bargain, it seems.
This exchange took place on bored-atlamont.com (the name refers to the undergraduate library at Harvard), a Web site whose original version, strangely, began last year in Butler Library, at Columbia University. Its creator, Jonathan Pappas, was in Butler the other night, explaining the source of his inspiration. "Basically, I was sitting in that room"--he pointed to Room 209, an undergraduate study area--"and I was thinking, I want to create something to beat my boredom," he said. Using his laptop and the school's wireless connection, he bought the domain name boredatbutler.com, for nine dollars, and built a simple Web page consisting of a post box--where visitors can write public messages--and a note of introduction: "Post your thoughts . . . but keep it anonymous!"
That night, Pappas put up a few flyers. By morning, the site had accumulated more than two thousand messages. (One of the first: "I'm a big chubby boy looking for a big chubby zebra.") Pappas has since graduated and relocated to Silicon Valley, and he has expanded the "bored at" empire to include eleven schools.
From Brown (boredattherock):
Annie Leibovitz is overrated. . . . Give me a camera, a beautiful well-known celebrity, and I'll give you a few good shots too. Gimme a break. , Can someone help me find my virginity? I think I lost it in grad center last night, FUCK, I left my coke outside the window to chill and it froze solid, I am really tired, I am really cold, When's the housing lottery?
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