"Hello?"
"Hey, little bro! Just checking in from the office to see how you're handling first-year life at Harvard. Not all of us were fortunate enough to go there, you know."
"Well, things are good here, I guess. Classes are kind of tough, dining hall could go a little easier on the starch products, and some perfectly normal fat lady on Mass. Ave keeps asking me for money day after day, but other than that, everything's pretty cool... well, actually, I guess I am sort of a little let down by a few things."
"Oh yeah? Like what, exactly?"
"I don't know. I sometimes get the impression that the administration around here, the highers-up, takes us for a bunch of chumps."
"I don't get it. The students and the administration don't see eye to eye? What's an example?"
"Okay, take the College's alcohol policy. It's really for the birds. I mean, when I went to register, I got handed this 30-page packet of legal gibberish and administrative threats. They probably spent more time putting it together than all the first-years combined spent on glancing at it before throwing it in the trash. "
"Well, you're not exactly 21 yet, you know. What does it matter to you?"
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