"Sally had an open window policy that year," Matt says of the girls' first floor room.

He came by so much he eventually moved into one of the two empty bedrooms.

With such a close relationship, the boys know all about one of the girls'

entryway crushes (code name: Salt).

While none of them is as close with their neighbors as they are with their blocking group, there is a split between those who want to participate more in entryway life and those who could live without it.

When Julio's play "The House of Blue Leaves" came up on the main stage, virtually all of Lowell F showed up to support him. And Julio and Matt have hung out with the boys downstairs to watch Yankees games.

As for their sophomore neighbors, a solid relationship never fully developed.The regrets of what could have been remain.

On May 29, Brian Smith was packing up his stuff in his dad's car, which had "Beef 1" on the license plate. Matt was instantly fascinated by Brian's stories about life on the farm back in Oklahoma.

"I had an interesting conversation with him about cattle," Matt says. "I wish I could have gotten to talk to him more."

Most of the missed opportunities to bond come from apathy, some entryway members say.

"I was fairly uninvolved," Juri admits. I just end up not going. It was there--I wasn't uninterested, but I wasn't that interested. It wasn't a priority."

Brian, another less active entryway member, agrees that forming a stronger connection to the House wasn't something he wanted to concentrate on pursuing. The extra effort to go to another study break or strike up a conversation just didn't seem worth it.

"We're really a clique," he says. "By senior year you know enough people that your world is established."

"It wasn't a conscious decision not to know them," Brian adds. "You find yourself getting lazy."

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