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...it’s great inventory and almost always 75% off,” she says. “So a lot of men and women will sneak out of their office during the day just to attend one.” Maybank smiled. “It creates this kind of hysteria.” The sample sale—and its hysteria—inspired Maybank and Wilson to start Gilt Groupe...
Each time I visit The Otherside, I am reminded that fitting into hipster culture, and into many other social groups, requires a very specific set of affectations. By contrast, at Harvard you can almost always fit into a community as you are. I’ve spent quite a bit of time reflecting on whether and how my life would have been different if I had traded in my hours in lab and long nights perfecting problem sets to fit in with any given social set. Now, as a senior, I realize that it certainly would be different, but probably...
...Almost no one fits into only one niche at Harvard; there are physicists in finals clubs, bookworms on sports teams, and future politicians sprinkled across the academic spectrum. These odd combinations fly in the face of expectation and significantly enrich and interlink the different strands of life on campus...
...keep a very low-fat diet, although it’s almost irresistible to not eat Chinese takeout,” says Pinker. “I have many boxes of Silver Palate Thick and Rough Oatmeal, which I order from Amazon.com. It’s really a superior oatmeal.” Sorry Quaker...
...Drama ensues. After publicly accusing Mr. S. of “bigotry” and burning his music, Sue vows to get him fired. On his lovable wife’s advice, Mr. Schue gets “down in the gutter” and flunks almost all the Cheerios. Turns out girls are “functionally illiterate” -- one misspelled her name and drew sombreros as her answers in Will’s Spanish class. Surprisingly, Principal Figgins finally puts his foot down, ending Sue’s “free passes...