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Harvard's Greatest Characters, at Harvard

By Alexander J. Spencer, Crimson Staff Writer

UPDATED: May 8, 2013 at 12:18 a.m.

With each class of actual seniors graduating every year, we sometimes forget about the fictional characters that have attended our fair university in TV shows and books. Here's what what we imagine they were up to when they were here.

Character: Christian Grey (from "Fifty Shades of Grey")

Major: English

Where You Can Find Him On a Friday Night: Meticulously planning his night to find the right party and the right girl

Where He Eats In the Square: Sophistication is the word—Rialto, Harvest, and of course Dunster dining hall.

Favorite Extracurricular: Munch

Where He Hopes To Be In 10 years: Managing a billion-dollar company.

Character: Ari Gold (from "Entourage")

Concentration: Economics

Where You Can Find Him On a Friday Night: After finishing his problem sets before they're due and taking hours to get ready, he'd be heading to a final club party

Where He Eats In the Square: The Kong

Favorite Extracurricular(s): HFAC, HIA, VFG, HER, HEA, Mankiw's office hours, OCS, chilling with Dean Thomas A. Dingman '67

Favorite Website to Procrastinate With: WallStreetJournal.com

Character: Joshua Lyman (from "The West Wing")

Concentration: Government

Where You Can Find Him On a Friday Night: Debating public policy with house tutors and working on his thesis

Where He Eats In the Square: Border Café

Favorite Extracurricular: IOP, The Crimson (seriously, it's in the script!)

Where He Hopes To Be In 10 years: In the President's Cabinet

Character: Dr. Frasier Winslow Crane (from "Cheers" and "Frasier")

Concentration: Psychology

Where You Can Find Him On a Friday Night: Giving out really great advice that he doesn't take himself

Where He Eats In the Square: Café Pamplona

Favorite Extracurricular: Sitting by the river thinking, sitting on Weeks Bridge thinking, and sitting in the Yard thinking

Favorite Website to Procrastinate With: Books

Character: Sara Sidle (from "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation")

Concentration: Molecular & Cellular Biology

Where You Can Find Her On a Friday Night: Planning her Saturday schedule so that she can get all of her work done

Where She Eats In the Square: Vending machines on the way back from lab, Brain Break, and Greenhouse Cafe

Favorite Extracurricular: Her EMT class and planning her med school application

Where She Hopes to Be In 10 Years: Practicing the type of medicine she wants to practice

Character: James "Toofer" Spurlock (from "30 Rock")

Concentration: Visual and Environmental Studies

Where You Can Find Him On a Friday Night: Relaxing at the Gato Rojo after an intense Krokodiloes concert

Where He Eats In the Square: Café Sushi

Favorite Extracurricular: The Harvard Krokodiloes and The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine.

Favorite Website to Procrastinate With: npr.org

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