Like Lehmann, Chvatik feels disconnected from Harvard's social scene.
Although he says that he and his girlfriend divide their time equally between their two campuses, "half the time spent socializing in one place means one-quarter the effect because you need to get over a threshold with people to get a real social relationship going."
For Lehmann and Chvatik, Harvard comes second.
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"Now that my boyfriend lives in the area, I basically spend all my free
time with him, which has certainly had a huge impact on my Harvard-based
social life," Lehmann wrote in an e-mail message.
"Basically I never developed a Harvard social life because of
his presence in my life.... There are definitely times when I wonder if I
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