Word: awkwardness
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...variety of internships dealing with animal husbandry—jobs that include feeding and cleaning the animals. In spite of the diversity of vendors present, some students said they wanted to see more summer opportunities based in community service. “I think it’s pretty awkward for people who aren’t that intense. It’s like being in a course section with all pre-meds,” Peter J. Martinez ’07 said. Alice R.B. Cullina ’08 offered similar criticism...
After one awkward spat too many with the Stones, Meredith beckons her younger sister Julie (Claire Danes) to join the fun and help smooth things over; unsurprisingly, incestuous, goggly-eyed sibling flirtation ensues between Julie and her sister’s fiancé, while Meredith starts to fall for Everettt’s own brother...
...student pulling an all-nighter with a dozen Budweisers at his side to finish (i.e. start) a paper and then spending all of the next day sleeping until crew practice; a group of guys scanning the freshman facebook for the hottest girls they can find; a shy and awkward Harvard undergrad from California becoming one of the world’s most-renowned pianists immediately after graduation; friends driving together to the Harvard-Yale game, sleeping on cold floors for the night, and tailgating starting...
...fashion shoot. Haven’s creativity is that elastic. Next semester, as magazine chair, you can be sure the only holding down will be done on her terms. Nothing—not the time of day, not the unprecedented volume of paper deadlines, not the level of awkward tension in a room—can stop Haven, and we’re so glad...
When I first met Elizabeth, I made the mistake of calling her “Liz.” I rue the day. Somewhere in the added “E,” the awkward nickname “Eliz,” we ended up with a tenacious reporter and I ended up with a rad friend. Her provenance is the debate on gender politics, the purported existence of “Alabama” as a concept, the merits of the Harvard non-meritocracy, the enzymes involved in the digestion of gluten, the wearing of dangly earrings...