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...abstained from participating in the standard, forced social interaction events of early freshman year. But more importantly, I became suspicious of other Harvard students. Seeing the utter vacuity to which some could stoop for even the most insignificant of goals, I began to mistrust anyone who would even casually accost me. Often such interactions would uncover a networker red-handed, as I watched their interest wane with satisfaction as I divulged my concentration (“Physics?! What do you do with that?”). I’d be damned if any palm-greasing, name-dropping, yarn-grubber...
...York is about to acquire a history, that it already has its ruins. This to adorn with a little softness the harshest city in the world." Yes, we have our ruins. We also have our songwriters. In the glory days of Tin Pan Alley, so-called songpluggers used to accost vaudeville vocalists, pushing them to perform their new compositions in hopes that they would make them into hits. New York is still just as aggressive, just as hungry, when it comes to songwriting. If Sting (who has an apartment in New York) could get a song out of the Cold...
...reading WILL WORK FOR DISTRIBUTION. And in a move even Pakistan wouldn't attempt, producers offered pedestrians a ride in a van, then refused to pull over until they finished showing their movie. Four filmmakers, each with a movie about extraterrestrials, sent their actors dressed in alien costumes to accost people on the street. I had never realized how many scripts involve aliens and repeated use of the phrase anal probe...
According to Assistant Dean David Illingworth, "This policy was put into place for students benefit to keep a modicum of order in the dorms." He said that before the restrictions, groups of students would enter Houses and accost students, saying, "I'm sleeping in your room tonight...
...Accost annoyed upperclassman for key card swipe into building. Curse House master for outlawing universal keycard access, and crawl up five flights of stairs. Arrive at "party" of 10 Harvard men. Met with wide eyes. "Ooo. This is good," the so-called...