"What's purling?"
"It's like knitting, but backwards."
"I don't know. I'm just doing what it said on the webpage."
Clearly, knitting at Harvard has a distinct 21st century edge to it. Distressed, I promptly pressed the incident out of my mind, assuming it to be an isolated incident.
Unfortunately, my hope of an isolated incident was smashed to bits 24 hours later when I entered my Leverett House dormroom to find not one, not two, but three of my five roommates sitting in a circle, knitting and gossiping like a bunch of 80 year-old grandmas. Two of them were not even doing their own knitting.
So, not only do these Harvard knitters knit on the sly as an exclusive activity with inherent social guidelines, but they do each other's knitting, with no apparent purpose. Product, therefore, is not the bottom line; the activity itself is the purpose, with product as an added bonus.
My suspicions of a widespread epidemic were confirmed when I caught myself at Pearl Arts and Crafts a day later, purchasing a set of size-13 needles and two balls of thick comfy yarn.
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