The girls from suburbia were typical of a good proportion of the Pit population.

"In the summer, suburban kids run away and hide in Harvard Square because they didn't get the car they wanted for their birthday," he said.

He and the other Pit regulars had even less flattering remarks about Harvard students.

"Arrogant, upwardly mobile, narrow-minded, pseudo-intellectuals," says Stu, who comes to the Pit to spread the word of Jesus Christ.

"Rich, rich fucking kids," says Izzy.

"Most of them are fairly egotistical and not nice in general. They get drunk and talk shit," Jesse says.

"They say they're really tough. That's why we stab them," another warns.

Talk of the murder of an MIT student by a Cambridge high school student seemed to be on the minds of most of the people there.

"Fuck that MIT student," a blond pre-adolescent boy from Dorchester interjects.

Jesse says that the media exploded unjustly over the murder. "Another 21-year-old kid was killed in Roxbury the same day," he says, "I'm not saying the killing is justified. I think the media had a feeding frenzy. It was unfair."

Both Izzy and Jesse are equally pessimistic about the upcoming election.

Jesse says he plans to write in Simpson's character "Sideshow Bob" this November.

Voting is just a matter of picking a "different oppressor," Izzy says, "No matter how cool he sounds, he's going to be the asshole for the next four years."

"Government is for slaves. Free people can govern themselves, "he adds.

And the ideal country?

"I don't think there should be borders," he says.