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...makeshift community of the shuttle bus about fragmentation, questions about advising raised by student suicides or the disenchanted scholar who once sat next to me and wrote, "section is like a bad first date" in his notebook in lieu of notes. Things can seem dire and dismal amidst the ugly gray of slush and snow or the guilt produced by unopened books during Christmas vacation, and sometimes we forget why we came here in the first place...
...shouldn't mean that the people who have been part of our lives won't stay that way. Our fellow seniors are our friends and lovers, our extracurricular colleagues and our fiercest rivals. By maintaining ties to those who have given our lives meaning, we can keep ourselves afloat amidst all the uprooting and reshuffling of our priorities and ideals. No matter how turbulent life becomes, it's always easier to orient yourself when you have other people as your compass...
...impending and then unfinished tutorial paper began to weigh upon me, like my personal rain cloud amidst the gorgeous sunny weather we were enjoying. I started fretting about my mother's visit, mentally evaluating its duration against my calculations for the time required for the paper. And so it was with some trepidation that I greeted my mom when she rolled into the Quad driveway in "the Bathtub," as my friends have affectionately dubbed our large white station wagon...
...Amidst moving boxes and final exams, the Radcliffe heavyweight crew will be getting ready for a big dance...
...good cause, it can have a great effect. And it can inspire as it entertains. In the evening's most indelible turn, Debra Monk played a New Yorker crisscrossing the border of reason and madness. She takes comfort in the poet Thomas Gray's line: "laughing wild amidst severest woe." For those in the audience with AIDS or other diseases that have ravaged our world, the phrase not only defined this hilarious, touching evening and the canny dramatic strategy of its playwriting trio. They were words to live by--a blueprint for the theater's survival, and ours...