Cabot House: Spacious Quad House featuring skylights in some rooms; only a short walk (yeah, right) from Harvard Yard.

Cabot Library: 1. A science library in the Science Center. Humanities concentrators do not feel comfortable here. 2. A second home for anal pre-meds. 3. Where you can watch videotapes of the science lectures you bagged. 4. Open all night during reading period, it's Harvard's version of Store 24--without food.

Cambridge City Council: Much like our own Undergraduate Council (see Undergraduate Council)--but they make $50,000 a year.

Cambridge Commons: 1. Grassy knoll separating the Quad from the rest of civilization. Steer clear at night. 2. Bar on Mass. Ave.

Cantabridgians: The residents of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Central Square: 1. Commerical district one T stop down Mass. Ave. 2. What Harvard Square used to look like (see Gentrification).

Chickwich: A compressed and processed breaded chicken patty that, for some reason, students adore.

Comping: Harvard-speak for joining a student group. Still the only way to get on the staff of The Crimson, the Advocate, or the Lampoon.

Concentration: 1. What every other college in America calls a major. 2. What you have to choose before the end of your first year.

Coop: 1. Where tourists go to buy Harvard sweatshirts and key chains; where you will stand in line for hours at the beginning of each semester to buy overpriced textbooks. 2. Rhymes with "loop" not "blow pop."

Core: 1. Eight required courses that allegedly teach you no facts, figures and ideas but approaches to knowledge. 2. The reason why you won't have time to take courses that are intellectually stimulating, challenging and fun.

The Harvard Crimson: 1. The only thing on campus worth reading. Cambridge's only breakfast table daily, founded in 1873. 2. Almost every athletic team on campus.

Crimson Key: 1. Cheery cult of students cloaked in crimson who organize orientation week and give campus tours to wide-eyed visitors.

Currier House: 1. Ugly house in the Quad where you have to be buzzed to enter.

Date: 1. Rare usage, at least at Harvard. 2. If you do go on one, consider yourself engaged.