LTE: My Eight-Man Is Doing “No Eighth-Man November”
Campus CultureStudent Life November 6, 2025 The New England Classic
Dear NEC,
It’s been oddly quiet in my Walsh eight-man these days. Well, not always quiet, it’s pretty lively until I enter the room. I’m not entirely sure what’s going on, but the vibe has just been a little off recently.
I thought my living situation was going pretty well this semester. We have this really amazing culture of acting in whatever way makes us most comfortable and “at home.” For me, I’ve always preferred listening to music in the shower before work around 7 A.M. to help wake me up! Some of my other roommates feel most at home by sending confrontational messages directed only at me over every minor inconvenience.
We have a good thing going on though, so I didn’t get suspicious of any major issues until I noticed my name tag on our door was missing sometimes. Whenever I would put it back up, it would always somehow end up back on the floor. When I asked my roommates about why only mine was falling, they got super flustered and defensive. Odd, I thought.
“Door gate” wasn’t that big of a deal, though. What made me suspicious was when I saw all of my roommates texting in a group chat I didn’t recognize, named “seven soul sistaaaas.” That shit honestly pissed me off so bad, but I gave them the benefit of the doubt?
The final straw in this roommate situation was when I received an email from Res Life, explaining how I have been given the “opportunity of a lifetime” to move into a single in Graycliff. My initial response was “helllll yeah” but part of me didn’t want to leave my girls. That was until I realized it was not an email from Res Life, and was indeed from a fake email address by one of my roommates trying to lure me away.
I think the cherry on top was my eight-man from hell chanting, “No eighth-man November.”
My dearest friends at the Classic, do you have any advice on how I can start No Flop November? I need help, clearly. 




