Word: complainer
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...four years at Harvard. In short, I feel alienated by an administration that recruited me and my peers on the basis of our intelligence and drive, only to make no good faith effort to understand our concerns about life at this university. I am not the first to complain about this; nor will I be the last...
Harvard-educated Nair, 44, is the first to concede that Monsoon shows a distinctly bourgeois bit of India. But if Woody Allen can reduce New York to the Upper West Side, who's to complain? "There are millions of people like us," says Nair. "This is not a rare breed." And it's not as if Nair has ignored life's rougher edges. Her early cinéma vérité work was all about outsiders, from Indian immigrants in America to strippers in Bombay, and her Oscar-nominated first feature, 1988's Salaam Bombay!, had a city street...
...right to read cheaply is alive and well—it’s called the library. I suspect, however, that if they started a courier service that delivered library materials to his room, Katz would probably complain that...
...honesty, Harvard eats aren’t too shabby. We complain because we have to—students love to relate to one another through mutual bitching and moaning about common oppressions such as mediocre food, constant problem sets, Expos (for the first-years) and how the Lampoon won’t accept heterosexual compers...
Most seniors have a difficult time taking such advice. First semester, all the rage was talking about blowing off summer research or switching topics or something else just as tantalizing as that. Reading period and exam period were an opportune time to complain about thesising in Cambridge while everyone else made good with the snow in New Hampshire. And nowadays, we have the pleasure of seemingly endless conversations about deadlines, revisions and library fines. To be honest, it’s been a rather unpleasant journey for all involved. Seniors spend more time complaining about their theses than writing them...