*ponderous* should i apply to harvard affiliated housing or to graduate dormitories? i have barely enough to pay rent outside of school, or i daresay i could manage it on my stipend only that wouldn't leave any money for food and books and the reasonable pleasures of existence. on the other hand, i've been given the dormitory tour when i visited and clearly they are no pretty poems. besides which we're getting rather old to be staying in dorms anymore, or at least i can see myself doing it for a few more years, but not when i'm 30, for by which time it shall only be expected that our bones creak and the spiders spin webs over our eyes, to borrow from the viscount st-george.