Word: chem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incurable hot-doggers, there is a daredevil maneuver called The Superman. When students are filing out of class, you grab on to the hold-on bar in a compartment and do a mini chin up, lifting your legs to get airborne. Note: You need hordes of Chem 10 students spinning through the doors to fuel your flight. Without them, your free, dizzyingly enjoyable circular ride is going nowhere...
...freshman year I took Chem 5 and Chem 7 and I was really struggling to balance football and the tremendous time commitment that can be required of science classes," Patterson says...
...quite irritating to hear from non-Harvardians how the hardest thing about Harvard is getting in, especially because you always happen to hear it just after you pulled your second all-nighter and you still can't improve your solid C+ in Chem 20. For most, the difficulty in Harvard lies in getting either an A or a C, since both require rather extreme study habits. Come Commencement, practically no one will know anyone who failed out of Harvard...
Some were successful--I'm still writing for the Crimson--and some weren't: my first Chem 5 midterm reflected my lackluster study habits. Which brings me to my first piece of advice: Use your first year to try it all. Sign up for 800 organizations. Meet as many people as you can. By the end of the first month, you'll end up figuring out what you want...
...turn red and crouch in the iron chair, complaining about my life, all the while knowing that across from me, my father was just trying to stay alive. I cried and complained and told him this boy, my boyfriend, was mad at me and I couldn't do chem and wasn't having fun and couldn't get good grades and couldn't get along with Mom--everything, except how much I wanted him to stay alive. What is wrong with me, I kept thinking, that I can't tell my father how scared I am that he'll disappear...