Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pretty universal experience. Spring eases into Cambridge and students hit the streets in search of summer housing. Last year I fell in step with the crowd and, combing through the leftovers, I found gold. It was fully furnished, with nice off-street parking, a sizable bedroom, even a front porch to park one's bike-or oneself-on after a long day. All that was lacking in the housing deal, it seemed, was the deposit...
...while I thought it was me and my glasses prescription preventing me from seeing the blackboards in the distance of the Science Center lecture halls or, more alarmingly, the books on my lap as I sat in my bedroom. The weak light of the overhead fixture's faint beams of light were blurring the letters even at nose-distance from the page. Yet if the problem stretched beyond my room, I figured, there would be signs...
Last year, I had nothing to complain about; my first-floor corner Hollis room had big windows which let in plenty of light (and tourists' glances). Now, my north-easterly-facing bedroom receives direct sunlight only between 6 and 8 a.m. No matter how good this arrangement might be for early-morning study sessions I sometimes plan but always seem to sleep through, my room is a cavern after...
Bragging proudly to her listeners, Alice announces, "I've got Section Eight subsidized housing. We're living in a three-bedroom apartment that normally costs $1062 a month, but we're only paying...
...certain quote in "Eight Days a Week" was particularly poignant for me. "I try to spend my time efficiently," one of the Wonderwomen in the article says. "I don't spend a lot of time sitting around, looking at the ceiling." The ceiling of my bedroom is covered with glow-in-the-dark stars. Two weeks ago, I spent the majority of an entire evening looking at the ceiling. I'm not going to try to explain to you why this was useful, or productive, or beneficial or enriching. To be quite honest, it was completely pointless. The next...