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A stranger assigned by alphabet who somehow knows your handwriting and panic face by June.
means A person who attends the same class or school as you, sharing the same lessons and timeline of learning.
from A transparent compound of "class" + "mate." "Class" comes from Latin classis, originally a division of the Roman citizenry (and later their fleet), which English borrowed for any grouping or category, including a group of students taught together. "Mate," meaning companion, is an old Germanic word related to "meat" in the sense of one you share food or board with — a messmate, a shipmate, and so a classmate. Together: the one you share the division with.
- seating science
- Alphabetical seating shapes lifelong friendships and even marriages.
- proximity effect
- Closeness, not personality, predicts who becomes friends first.
- borrowed pens
- Returned at rates rivaling distant comet appearances.
- reunion math
- Most graduates remember faces but blank on actual names.
- shared blame
- One late assignment can collectively punish thirty innocents.
anne frank's classmates — students at montessori school in amsterdam who knew anne before she went into hiding in 1942