One fun game I like to play is to guess what house someone would have been picked into HAD they gone to Caltech. In Karen’s case, I’d have guessed Ricketts, (then Ruddock, Fleming, Blacker)—I actually wrote it in the comment reply, but edited it out.

It’s hard for anyone to picture me anything other than a Page Boy (after all, I’m loud and obnoxious, my father was a Page Boy, heck I was a member of the excomm and the infamous w8rs) but I actually listed Page as my last choice in the North Houses. I wonder what sort of person I’d be had I prefroshed at, rotated out of, or been picked into a South House.

I wonder where Avery House sits or how things have changed nowadays—has Page finally fully become Lloyd West?

As for showers, they all had curtains. You just put your towel up, stepped into the shower, pulled the curtain closed, and showered. If you were shy, you could pull your towel into the shower to dry off/cover up when you were done. If you weren’t shy, well, just towel off and go.

So, yeah, all the showers and bathrooms were co-ed, and you just used them. The co-ed aspect was an issue to everyone else in the world, but not to any one in RIcketts.

It was a system of mutual respect, I guess. It worked.

The bathrooms and the showers in the South Houses were co-ed. I forgot how it worked, but I remember it working out pretty well when I was there.

Did you ever see Harold and Kumar? Would be curious to have been able to play “battleshit” with karenism.

I hate it when the Women’s line is super-long and there’s no one in the Men’s bathroom. Can’t we all just pee together?