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...quintessentially American conun-drum writ small: the right to liberty against the rule of law. Too many rules, and you feel like a puppet. Too few, and you're stuck wondering what you're doing there. "You want to avoid that basic fear of terrifying existential crisis," Houser says. "You don't want to put that into the game." There's enough of that in real life...
...know it’s a tough time to land a job and naturally you want to put your best foot forward at that interview, so here are some common answers to avoid...
...engineer seemed cheerful. “I think in some ways dating outside the humanities fulfils the purpose of the Core Curriculum,” she told me. I started telling my friends to stop pining for awkward poets and start hanging out in the buildings we usually avoid. Which might or might not explain how I ended up at the Miracle of Science Bar & Grill. I was sitting across from a condensed matter theorist. Instead of gloves, he was wearing socks on his hands. I decided to ignore that. Our conversation was going okay. He didn?...
...dinner time at Currier and a Celine Dion remix is pumping at the grill, courtesy of d-hall manager Amy Lester. “She plays so much garbage,” complained cook Nick F. Heron, who tries to alternate between eighties, rock, and country music to avoid dance mixes. “The constant beat drives me crazy after a while,” he explained. Kirkland varies its styles, with anything from seventies to Rage Against the Machine playing at the grill. But the true music aficionado of K-House is card swiper Tommy Hardy, a club...
...love with Christ and heroin.” And like that, Molly Ringwald is cast to the background in the mental picture, lingering to strike an evocative contrast to the song’s underpinnings. This is The Pains of Being Pure At Heart at their best, when they avoid the “aw shucks” puns that they can otherwise be drawn to, crafting excited, conflicted hymn-ditties for the “Pete and Pete” set.At times, they miss their mark, as not all listeners can share their tolerance for sticky-sweet synthesizer, ironic...