Profiles: Irit Tau '97 and Tracy S. Ross '97

Concentration:

Irit: "Gov Jock"

Tracy: Linguistics

Home:

I: Pennsylvania, near Philly, and Leverett

T: Manlius, New York and Leverett

On what the two of them are known for:

T: "Being together a lot. We tell jokes together-- Irit usually tells them but she forgets things, so I have to say them."

I:"That we hang out a lot and that we're very cool. And if we meet a friend for dinner or something, it's kind of assumed That we're a packaged deal."

On why they put Leverett on their housing form:

T:We didn't. We all got randomized in here.

I: We didn't. But now I can't imagine living any-where else."

So how did your roommate get her name?

T: "Well, she's Israeli. It means Iris in Hebrew."

I:"Her grandmother's side of the family is Irish, and her maiden name is Tracy. There's this story that every St. Patrick's day, she used to dye her hair green."

So Tracy's green hair is just a family tradition?

I: "No, that's just because she's a freak."

On each other's most annoying habits:

T: "She's always late...I kind of have this anal thing about punctuality."

I: "She has a really weird sense of what's embarrassing. Like one time, we were at UNO's, and I really wanted cheesecake with chocolate ice cream. They didn't have any, so I ran to Store 24 to buy some and I brought it back. Tracy was completely humiliated. But then she'll walk around with this checkered, pastelly-colored air-line blanket over her head and she totally loves it when people comment on it. I find that really embrrassing."

On the strangest thing about their friendship:

I: "We have nothing in common. We disagree on everything--life, reality, religion, love, men--you name it."

T: "Irit washes the floor every Friday. With like, water, yes. She has to be clean. She's afraid of people touching her hair because she thinks it will make her greasy. Then there's me. See those black pants in the corner? I washed them three weeks ago, and since then I've worn them over and over and over."

Where do you see yourself in 20 years?

T: "Hopefully I won't be wearing a suit."

I: "Either a well-known lawyer or a not-well-known diplomat."

On the dating scene at Harvard:

I:"It's unfairly arbitrary. Every person has a broad range of conceptually dating certain people, but it seems like when people do get asked out on dates, it's with someone they'd never imagine dating."

T: "What dating scene?"

Who would you rather marry from "Three's Company," Mr. Furley or Mr. Roper?

I:"Ew. Those are horrible choices. I guess Mr. Roper because I wouldn't have to sleep with him. He was very asexual and wouldn't have sex with Helen whereas Mr. Furley was just horny."

T:"They're both kind of old and nasty. I wouldn't want to marry either. Which one had the wife that wore muumuu's? Mr. Roper? That one. I could have fun dressing up in muumuu's."

Now I'm going to say a word, and you're going to say the first thing that pops into your head: Toe jam

I:"Frogs because toe jam sounds like toads."

T:"Toe toast."

Chocolate body paint

I:"Yum!"

T:"Yum!"

Vinyl

I:"Really painful when wearing shorts. Like when you're sitting in the library for five hours."

T:"Makes good dresses."

Wool socks

I:"Tracy. She wears like five pairs in the winter. She also has orgasms about flannel sheets, but that's okay. When I get nosebleeds because it's 95 degrees in here, Tracy has her space heater cranked all the way up."

T:"Wonderful."

Ballroom dancing

I:"Awesome because I do it."

T:"Irit does that."