CAMBRIDGE, MA – Harvard junior Trisha Richman was disappointed to find that Alex McGovern, the quiet kid from her English section, is in fact a very strange and socially inept person.

“He just seemed really mysterious,” Richman said of the pale, gangly sophomore. 

Richman, whose previous efforts to engage McGovern in small talk had been unsuccessful, finally managed to corner the mildly anti-social boy with a meticulously crafted question about the relative merits of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King as a follow-up to Infinite Jest. 

Witnesses report that McGovern shifted uncomfortably in front of Richman, avoiding eye contact for approximately twenty seconds before mumbling unintelligibly and walking away.

“He just kind of blinked at me,” said Richman.

At time of press, Richman was working up the courage to ask out that guy who always sits by himself in Quincy dining hall.