“Woohoo, we’re not in the Quad. Second reaction, woohoo we’re in Lowell,” said Kathryn C. Gluckman ’07, Nathanson’s blockmate, of their reaction to the news.

Lowell House was the first stop on this blocking group’s “River Run” Wednesday night.

“Superstitiously, absolutely, it was great we started off in Lowell last night,” said Jessica R. Rosenfeld ’07. who along with Nicholas A. Molina ’07 makes up the last two members of the blocking group.

Across the hallway in Nathanson’s Canaday A-entryway, the sentiment was less than enthusiastic.

“The girls across the hall got Cabot,” Nathanson said. “It was really hard to contain our emotions.”

IN THE QUAD

Others also found themselves Quaded yesterday.

“We were pretty bummed,” said Matthew R. Conroy ’07, a Stoughton resident who was assigned to Cabot House. “We didn’t want to get the Quad and the girls upstairs got Lowell.”

Instead of engaging in traditional River rituals, Conroy and his blockmates decided to stay in last night playing games in their dorm.

“I think we were less scorned by those [River] gods and more entrapped by the demons of the Quad,” said Conroy.

Matthew R. Lynch ’07, Conroy’s blockmate, said there was a silver lining.

“I wasn’t happy I was in the Quad, but the size of the rooms and the community of the Quad make up for it,” he said.

Wednesday night, Conroy and Lynch’s blocking group, which also includes Charlton T. Volpe ’07 and George T. O’Brien ’07, said that being placed in Dunster House was worse than the Quad.

“Dunster will burn down to the ground before we get into it,” said Lynch Wednesday night.

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