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...massively multiplayer online role-playing game” (MMORPG) that asks its participants to imagine an alternative reality where the inhabitants aren’t your friends and suite-mates, but rather strangers huddled around computers hundreds of miles away. But while—Facebook groups aside??most “Harry Potter” readers have no illusions of actually attending Hogwarts, Harvard’s Warcraft players enter the continents of “The Eastern Kingdoms” or “Kalimdor” just as easily as they might enter the Radcliffe Quad...
...first choice in selecting which committee to serve on, leaving those with fewer votes dissatisfied with their roles. Last spring, UC members voted to protect their incumbency advantage rather than allocate candidate slots more efficiently. We hope that this time around they are able to put their personal interest aside??even if dissolving a committee means costing jobs for incumbents—and be responsible to their constituents and their school. This new slimmer and sleeker UC will be more effective and more responsive to campus needs serving the best interest of Harvard College as a whole...
...Internet most certainly is: on the net, somebody could be anyone, and it’s almost impossible to expose false claims of persona. And that means, among other things, that on the Internet, anyone—race, gender, and even sometimes talent and intellect aside??can be somebody, whether they like...
...though they reaped the benefits of Harvard’s 9-0 campaign as freshmen, few would have claimed to call that season their own. Only two, Ryan Fitzpatrick and Adam Jenkins, held slots on the travel squad, and—Fitzpatrick’s heroic comeback against Dartmouth aside??that was Neil Rose’s and Carl Morris’ team, not theirs...
...Once we had caught up on hometown gossip, we chatted a bit about college essays. As we talked, I remembered what one of my old writing teachers had said about application essays: “They’re essentially a good work of fiction.” Cynicism aside??he was talking more about flow and style than about fabrication—my teacher’s approach seems to be the difference between self-study as a way of expanding our views, and self-study that threatens to swallow us (the kind of writing that...