They said they would go “pre-gaming” at [Boston bar] Pravda until 2 a.m., at which point “we’ll have [a cab] deposit us by the river with a freshman boy named Lowell, our sacrificial lamb,” said Kim Z. Smith ’05.

“He’s our freshmeat,” said Marks. “We’re going to sacrifice him so we’ll get into Lowell House.”

They said they also hope to ensure a place on the river by tracking down students whose names match the names of the river Houses.

“We want to get all the boys named Adam, Eliot and Kurt to kiss us,” Marks said. “Hopefully we’ll get into Adams since there are more Adams in the class.”

Mather House is last on their list—after the Quad.

“Mather is the dungeon dorm, it’s like you’re going to prison,” Marks said.

The students said they are also wary of some House dining halls.

“We want to avoid Mather and Dunster food-poisoning,” Smith said.

The blockmates said if they are assigned to the Quad, they will face their fate with an entrepreneurial spirit.

“We’ll all get singles, and we’ll have so much room we’ll buy a tanning bed and rent it out,” Smith said.

“We will also open up a scooter industry to make the walk of shame that much shorter,” Marks said. “We will capitalize on being Quadded!”

Mile-High Blockmates

Meanwhile, one blocking group spent last night preparing to fly to the Dominican Republic for spring break on a flight that left at 4 a.m. this morning.

Out of the five-person blocking group of Timothy W. Bilodeau ’05, Christopher D. Golden ’05, Daniel S. Hamovic ’05, John R. Lidington ’05 and William G. Whelan ’05, only Hanovic will stay behind to collect the envelope.

“I’m not that anxious about it, because there’s nothing we can do anyway,” Lidington said. “We just have to wait and see.”