Too much effort involved in taking a bath. What ought to be an innocent
pleasure becomes a morbid family pride.
Accessibility to bores who want to kill time while waiting for their
next lecture. At first you think this is Popularity.
Enforced quiet after 9 P.M.--at which hour you usually close your books
and feel like making a noise.
Enforced activity before 9 A.M.--until which hour you always close your
eyes and try not to feel at all.
Necessity of burning a kind of coal that refuses to light (or to stay
lighted) for anybody but the janitor, who is never in the basement,
where you always firmly believe (in spite of your daily failure) that
you are going to find him.