<p>Hi, I applied to Brown, and I’m a total stick in the mud. I’m allergic to loud music, the smell of alcohol makes me nautious, and I’d dress like a nun except I find black too heavy for SoCal weather. How would I fare if I went there nonetheless? Are there safe havens for the freaks and geeks like myself?</p>
<p>I suppose it really depends where you end up as far as housing and more particularly your floor. Most partying is done on the weekends, and alcohol is certainly avoidable if you don't want it (i don't drink at all). I've never had a problem with noise except for people occassionally talking right outside my door (but i am right next to the elevator). But that said you could always opt for substance-free housing which isn't always such a bad thing and depending on the people can also be a great experience. There is a certain all-female, substance-free floor on pembroke this year (nicknamed the convent even) that has extremely great community and isn't as catty as one would imagine an all-female floor to be.</p>
<p>You can request substance free housing. A lot of my best friends are there, and it's actually quite an awesome community of people. I've heard that upperclassmen sub-free isn't as great though.</p>
<p>Overall, how you do here will depend greatly on your tolerance for other people's behavior. If you don't drink, but don't mind having friends who drink, and don't mind hearing about it, then you should be fine. However, if your objections to it are so great that you will refuse to hang out with anybody who ever parties, then you may find yourself somewhat limited and frustrated socially.</p>
<p>do you cut yourself too?</p>
<p>I think you wont like college in general.</p>
<p>Wouldn't having substance-free housing openly suggest that there are substance-full floors elsewhere?</p>
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<p>I am worse than the thread-starter, and I am having a wonderful experience...</p>
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I'm allergic to loud music, the smell of alcohol makes me nautious
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Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means "sickening to contemplate";the second means "sick at the stomach." Do not, therefore, say, "I feel nauseous," unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
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<p>I will be your friend :) (if I get in)</p>
<p>I am very much aware of that npeds</p>
<p>heybucs -- yes, there are "substance-full" floors elsewhere. Being in subfree housing means that you sign a contract agreeing not to use illegal substances or be under their influence while on the floor. If you break the contract multiple times you are kicked out of subfree housing. On other floors, the rules about illegal substances are much more relaxed.</p>
<p>are the housing on subfree floors nicer than normal. i know that it is a lottery and all but would housing generally be nicer?</p>
<p>tkm256! I will be your friend, too! That is...if I get in. hah</p>
<p>you can still be friends with most people... its like like people who drink will "shun you away"</p>
<p>I know a student there who is a non-drinker and lives in some kind of tech house. He loves Brown.</p>
<p>I like to party (occassionally), but I'm not a drinker. Alcohol is poison for the brain, kiddies! haha</p>
<p>The freshman subfree floor this year was the second floor of Perkins, which is a nice dorm but kind of far from campus, so the kids who live there are really tight.</p>
<p>Plantations House (I know... awful name) has been a subfree dorm for upperclassmen, and it's really nice. One of the New Pembroke dorms (2 I think) has also been a subfree dorm for upperclassmen. Right now that's all up in the air because the requests to live in subfree for next year were due recently and I don't think they've announced what will be open for them...</p>
<p>For all you language purists:</p>
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[Q] From John David Hamilton: For many years I have been irritated by the misuse of the word nauseous which is all too often used when the user means nauseated. I was taught that when one is sick one feels nauseated but is often nauseous to others. I first heard this used by well-off but poorly educated New Yorkers but it has spread everywhere. Can you explain please and tell me whether nauseous in its newly offensive use is acceptable?
[A] There has been a lot of discussion about this in recent decades, and many American dictionaries flag the disputed senses in usage notes. As you say, the distinction that has been taught is that nauseous means causing nausea but nauseated means feeling or suffering from nausea. So if a person says I am nauseous, a purist might reply Yes, you are; misusing words like that makes your listeners feel sick. (This comment is best relayed from a distance.)
What seems to have happened in the US is that a new usage grew up some time before World War IIone writer suggests that it may have arisen first in the Bronx or Brooklyn, so your geographical sense is spot onin which nauseous meant the same as nauseated: sick to the stomach. It was only as a result of this local usage that grammarians and usage guide writers after World War II seem to have begun to make a distinction between the two terms, one that some commentators point out is not altogether supported by word history. The Oxford English Dictionary has seventeenth-century examples of nauseous in the sense inclined to nausea, though in its entrywritten in the late nineteenth centuryit marks the sense as both rare and obsolete.
That entry will definitely be revised when the new edition comes out, since nauseous has now regained this meaning, a change that has been widely noted and commented on. Merriam-Websters Dictionary of English Usage says firmly: Any handbook that tells you that nauseous cannot mean nauseated is out of touch with the contemporary language. In current usage it seldom means anything else. The new edition of the American Heritage Dictionary concurs: Since there is a lot of evidence to show that nauseous is widely used to mean feeling sick, it appears that people use nauseous mainly in the sense in which it is considered incorrect.
But, as MDEU points out, there is subtlety in the way it is used. When nauseous means feeling physically sick, it usually appears after a verb such as feel, become, get or grow: Doctor, Im feeling nauseous. When it means causing nausea, it is much more likely to be used before a noun: To conceal the nauseous flavour of the raw spirit they added aromatic herbs and spices. Much of the older sense of nauseous, both literal and figurative, is in the process of being transferred to nauseating: To this, with nauseating smarminess, he immediately attested, The children looked a little green from the nauseating fairground rides. Nauseated, to judge from the citation evidence, now seems to be less common than either.
Its an interesting example of the way in which the language can change within a generation or so. It can only be annoying (nauseating, even) for somebody who has painfully learned a distinction between words to find that usage has changed and their knowledge is out of date. Think of it as language evolution in action.
World Wide Words is copyright © Michael Quinion, 19962006.
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<p>Speak to any professor, Brown or elsewhere, and he/she will direct you to Strunk and White's Elements of Style, the text from which I posted my excerpt. Perhaps confusing nauseous and nauseated is acceptable in popular conversation and writing, but such an infelicity is impertinent in serious academic writing.</p>
<p>Oh, my sincerest apologies. I neglected to note the formality of these erudite boards :)</p>
<p>Thanks guys, for both the encouragement and discouragement. Subfree housing sounds great! I'd just have to adjust, is all...if I can keep my clothes on, I really wouldn't care what other people do.</p>
<p>senior200610, I did cut myself once. It was supposed to be a potato, but my finger got in the way. Dang paring knives :D</p>
<p>"Speak to any professor, Brown or elsewhere, and he/she will direct you to Strunk and White's Elements of Style, the text from which I posted my excerpt. Perhaps confusing nauseous and nauseated is acceptable in popular conversation and writing, but such an infelicity is impertinent in serious academic writing."</p>
<p>And as we all know, CC posts are inarguably serious academic writing. Please excuse my starting a sentence with 'and'.</p>