Lounging on blankets and sipping wine last Tuesday at midnight, a dozen seniors in the Lowell House courtyard bantered about the NBA, gossip and plans for the Last Chance Dance.

The group collectively waved at Master Diana L. Eck as she walked by on her way to the superintendent's office.

"I locked myself out--again," Eck sheepishly admitted to the students, who soon returned to their debate over which of them would take married names.

As the night lingered, tipsy neighbors returned from various parties and bars to plop down on the grass, listen to music and pass around their first-year facebook to pick out targets for the next night's debauchery.

"Oh yes, we do this all of the time," jokes F-42 resident Matthew T. Ozug '00.

For Lowell's F entryway and their extended House family, this was another last chance--to bond, meet and share with their community.

Without theses, plays or sports weighing on their schedules, the seniors finally had time for the model House life. And undoubtedly, the potential for a connection was there.

Virtually all of the residents of Lowell F, which houses members of five blocking groups, would characterize their entryway relationship as unusually close.

But like most things at Harvard, entryway life was only there when they worked for it--and most of them didn't have the time.

The Buzz

Walk into F-31 any Wednesday night at about 8 p.m. and prepare to be attacked. The senior trio of May H. Li, Sally E. Sadoff and Maureen K. Schad perch themselves on the crowded couches and chairs in their common room for their ritual viewing of "Dawson's Creek."

"Why are they together?" shouts Sally in disbelief at the screen. "What! Ohmigawd this girl is a bitch!"

The assortment of visitors are unperturbed by the outpouring of emotion.

As Maureen says, "We're the quirky room."

One of their artist friends has depicted each of the four seasons in murals that cover the bathroom walls, and all three have painted their rooms with bright colors.

Sally's room, with its lime green walls, holds a series of bowls she purchased in Senegal, fancy hats and a new addition: a "Dawson's Creek" poster.