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...year habit is not easy to break, and although Acheson is uncertain about how he'll compensate for the loss, he knows he will begin spending more time playing the saxophone and writing and studying...
...Football has been a major part of my life, of my identity," Acheson says, pausing occasionally to push aside notes for another Fine Arts paper that clutter his bed. "I've always liked having that as part of my identity, as well as being a little different--by being a Fine Arts major, or by playing...
...that announce Ach's individuality--his Fine Arts concentration, his interest in classical and jazz music, his love of plants, his internship last summer at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts--are simply a departure from the stereotype. The fact that most Harvard students are surprised to discover that Acheson has these interests is evidence that the dumb-football-player attitude persists...
...surprising, given his interest in art, that Acheson considers his football career an aesthetic experience. "There are basically three types of people," he says. "There are artists, those with any kind of creative impulses; there are non-artists, those without any real creative impulses; and there are madmen. Athletics is my artistic release, my only way of expressing myself emotionally and creatively...
...right now Acheson has a lot of questions about his future, only one of which is whether he'll find a position on a pro roster. And even though he knows he loves to play football, even though he knows he'd like to continue to play, he has trouble isolating exactly what it is about the game that he loves. "It's hard to say what I like about football, in the same sense that it's difficult for someone who's been playing the violin for years to define why he loves it--it's almost become...