Word: anall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Premeds are a much maligned group at Harvard. Not a week goes by when some joke about our little stressed friends appears on the Op-ed pages of some campus journal. The popular stereotype portrays them as cut-throat anal retentive control freaks--a mob of students armed with red-blue black green click pens and mechanical pencils converging on the Science Center en mass at precisely nine o'clock every morning...
...spend their Thanksgiving break studying--they can do so regardless of impending exams, but I think it is reasonable to say that a fair number of students would prefer to spend their break unwinding, vacationing, or spending time at home with their families. Harvard should not encourage the "anal" tendencies of some pre-meds by forcing all Chemistry 30 students to spend their vacation studying. I am writing this letter because, as a non-concentrator, I can. I'm not trying to impress the professor and I won't fail Chemistry 30 because...
...then there's the bean-counting anal-retentive jerk who insists on splitting all expenses with his wife, even those that are exclusively his. He apparently hates warmth of any kind, since he enjoys nothing more than eating ice cream with the windows wide open, and treats his marriage like a business arrangement...
...savvy and the anal usually manage to find out, but the middle-of-the-road, average member of the Class of 1997 probably does not. At least not until the midterm of doom falls on his or her head somewhere in the middle of the semester and our first-year friend retreats to Room 13 in shock...
...large-scale orderliness; planners fail to see the trees for the forest. During the past couple of decades, the relentlessly-raze-and- rebuild notion of progress has been overtaken by a mania for historic preservation, which is a great improvement. But preservationism can also tend toward the prissy, the anal and the monomaniacal and become a kind of by-the- book undertaker's approach that makes dead and dying downtowns prettier but not quite alive...