"I don't think I ever saw him walking with anybody. I don't think he was ever in any of my classes. I do think I remember seeing him in his cap and gown. But I'm not sure he had anyone there with him. I was not surprised at all that he had holed himself up in Montana," McIntosh continues.
McIntosh describes an occasion when he returned to the room to discover Kaczynski lounging on the sofa in the common room. "As soon as he noticed I had come back, he sneaked back to his room," McIntosh says.
McIntosh recalls that Kaczynski "had not contributed to the furnishings in the sitting room.... I went around asking for payments for the bills. He'd open the door part way, give me what was necessary and shut it."
McIntosh is careful, however, to emphasize that he never saw any suggestion of violent tendencies in Kaczynski's behavior. "I don't think he was at all grouchy or rude," McIntosh says.
"He was polite but as brief as he could manage it. Somehow, he didn't seem the angry threatening kind of person. If we ranked [all of the suitemates], he wasn't the one we dislike the most. He was neutral, just a big mystery," McIntosh says.
Kaczynski's former suitemate describes the suspected Unabomber's living habits as unkempt and disorderly. "He had a god-awful messy room," says McIntosh. "When he wadded up paper, he would toss it towards a corner. I think we finally may have asked Ted to clean up his room."
McIntosh says that he and his suitemates considered seeking some sort of counseling for Kaczynski but were distracted by their studies.
In the days since Kaczynski's arrest, his classmates have reflected on the diametrically different paths their lives have taken from that of the suspected Unabomber.
Former Eliot House resident G. Oliver Koppell '62 is now a prominent New York attorney, who has served as state Attorney General.
"It is not a particularly happy association," Koppell says of Kaczynski, his former classmate and fellow Eliot House resident.
But Koppell says he was not completely surprised upon learning that the suspect in the bombing spree is a Harvard graduate.
"Harvard attracts bright, capable, intelligent people of all kinds," Koppell says. "Unfortunately, some people use their intellect in negative ways."