<p>cbatch, a couple of years ago andover threatened to take exeter off its schedule because exeter had been trouncing them so regularly in basketball. since then, a mandate has gone out to exeter coaches to lighten up against andover until andover is able to recover its self esteem. we hope you recover soon (5 years?) so that normalcy can return to exeter-andover athletics contests. </p>
<p>best wishes with that recovery! :D</p>
<p>lolwut at lights out.</p>
<p>In some dorms, [<em>cough</em> merrill] you have to be in your bed, lights off.
One of the teachers caught a student’s lights on at 10:58 and gave her 7’s. [you have to check in an hour early].</p>
<p>However, in the more lenient dorms, just being quiet past 11 is the norm.</p>
<p>the e-book rule is that all students must be in their rooms after 10:30. this is enforced in only a few dorms though</p>
<p>some of the stricter dorm fac will try and make sure you’re in your room during study hours (8-10), and that uppers/seniors who don’t have to check in at 8 are quiet so the underclassmen can study. The same strict dorm fac may also check if you’re preparing to sleep by 11, and my experience is that they simply tell you to sleep and you are welcome to stuff towels under the door or whatever</p>
<p>room checks happen a few times a year (where the fire department checks), and dorm fac can also check your room whenever they want. It’s up to the dorm fac, but generally they will go around once a (time period) and check rooms and tell people to clean their rooms up. You can’t have a mini-fridge unless you have prescribed medication and have it cleared with the dean’s office.</p>
<p>What are the dorm stereotypes?
Are there dominant cliques?
Is there bullying or teasing/hazing for new preps?
When new preps come in in September, is there some sort of orientation?</p>
<p>skimilk. lights off and lights out are the same thing, relax. dont have to analyze or read into everything.</p>
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<p>Actually prep posse is generally the prettiest girls and the hottest boys. They only date each other for the most part, or the girls are hooking up with the post grads. Sorry CMao, but your definition is a little off base.</p>
<p>well im sorry if mine is a little “offbase” according to you but from my experience people really dont seem to ike prep posse. i never really said anything about looks and stuff just that people think theyre really loud and i think you know thats true but its great youre adding on!</p>
<p>People really think all preps are loud and obnoxious as a group. And it’s been in my experience that in general Prep Posse has the most upperclassmen ties and friends of any other group of preps.</p>
<p>Anyway… I thought Exeter didn’t allow minifridges and the like.</p>
<p>electric coolers are allowed, you can’t have a minifridge unless you have a medical condition and clearance from the dean’s office</p>
<p>of course, students get minifridges anyways, but you will be forced to get rid of it if a faculty finds out</p>
<p>What’s the difference between an electric cooler and a minifridge?</p>
<p>Ooh I know that answer (I think!)–and electric cooler is a regular old thermos style picnic/fishing cooler that plugs in (saw one at a grad party last week); a fridge, well you know, like we had in our dorm rooms back in the day.</p>
<p>^back in the day 
haha</p>
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A minifridge is just sort of a miniature version of the refrigerator in your kitchen, where the cooling is produced by a compressor working with freon refrigerant. An electric cooler employs thermoelectric cooling, requires neither a compressor nor freon, and is totally silent.</p>
<p>OK. Got it. My roommate in college had a minifridge. I put a micrograph of e. Coli on it that I had torn from my microbiology text.</p>