Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...risks when we chose to embark on certain missions or take on certain challenges. It is your own fault if you choose not to go out to a party on a weekend--just don't decry your lack of a social life. Don't be surprised when your grades begin to suffer because of leadership in a student publication; you chose extra-curriculars over academics. My advice is to stop assigning blame to individuals or situations that do not deserve it. If you are unhappy at this school it is certainly not the fault of the Harvard administration. Instead...
Residents say he was the first one to begin cutting down the weeds...
...previous year. It's exciting. You're living in a house, and if everything finished smoothly the year before you've got some blockmates, concentration (that you'll probably change) and most important, a feeling of having returned somewhere where people know you. After sophomores settle down, they begin to feel that they know what's going on. They are no longer confined to the Yard or the Grille for their social lives, and by the end of the year, already countless sections into college, sophomores tend to think they are on the verge of understanding the workings...
This is a terrible fallacy, and one which seniors begin to pick up on as they face the fact that adulthood and post-college life lie on their horizon. Senior spring, after theses are handed in and extracurricular commitments have more or less dwindled away, is a time for reflection. It is a time during which we who are soon to graduate can look at the experience we have had, and determine what was important and what was not; which classes and relationships taught us the most; and, on a more general level, it is a time during which...
...campus in the fall fired up--but this time about more than football. With the help of a textile union, he and a group of friends pinpointed a factory in the Dominican Republic where workers earn just 69[cents] an hour making Michigan hats. They demanded that the university begin monitoring the production of Michigan clothing, which brought the school $5.7 million last year. In mid-March he and 29 classmates stormed into the university president's office. After a 51-hour sit-in, they emerged with a pledge by administrators to improve the conditions of workers who stitch Michigan...