Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sean: Aramark doesn't let us ask the players for autographs. I met Cal Ripken briefly. He was sitting with his family and he bought Italian ice for all of them. And I also met Matt Damon when he was in the celebrity hitting challenge. He was horrible. I said, "Better luck next round...
...they have a hard time tracking their grant account, they run the risk of overspending them, and that's a problem," Peters said. "They either have to go back to the funding agency and ask for more, or the deptartment has to make up the difference, or ultimately FAS would have to make that up. This is a problem we had hoped ADAPT would cure...
...first exercise in definitional rigor I would invite Lee to undertake is that between "irony" and "cynicism." In referring to "students who incessantly ask questions in lecture" who are wrongly labelled as "brown-nosers," Lee is talking about cynicism, not irony. Somehow Lee's commentary does not make me fear the breakdown of commitment in America, but the breakdown of the ability to think rigorously at one of America's universities...
...shill, but this really is an important event. Why, you ask...
Consequently, we second-guess the motives of those who spend "too much" time on academics: Students who incessantly ask questions in lecture are brown-nosers, pre-meds who study on weekends are anal, gov-jocks who thrive on the Federalist papers are future political wannabe's. Academic earnestness is often meet with scathing criticisms of social climbing. The oft-repeated statement that "Harvard would be so much better if we didn't have classes" is a pithy reflection of our ironic attitude...