Frazzled first-years, don't bother with the book. Don't listen to the house tours. FM's handy guide to the houses will tell you all you need to know--not that it matters, you'll get randomized anyway. (And remember, housing forms are due on Monday.)

Adams

Sound-bite: We're all gay and we're coming to get you.

Reality: We're mostly straight and we're coming to get you.

Cabot

Sound-bite: Of all familiar geometric shapes the circle is probably the one that has most captivated man's imagination.

Reality: Everybody transfers.

currier

Sound-byte: Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life on this planet.

Reality: Beam me up Scotty, there's no "intelligent" life in this house,

Dudley

Sound-bite: What's Dudley?

Reality: What's Dudley?

Dunster

Sound-bite: Using the campus press, granola revolutionaries overthrow the patriarchy in the name of P.C.