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That this is the story I recall best from the whole semester is a good example of the fact that I didn’t get it then. For me, the main part of my dad??s coming to college with me was telling people that he lived in Mather (still kind of funny, actually). The teaching part seemed secondary. I also didn’t really believe he could do it. Though he has taught at Middlebury College, a small liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont, for 36 years and has a huge following of devoted former...
...What my dad??s semester here taught me was that unlike Middlebury, say, where the undergraduate experience is arguably more uniform, the college experience at Harvard didn’t mean having a series of fairly common formative experiences and wearing a lot of polar fleece. It meant choosing carefully. So I missed out on lasagna. It’s okay. I have my mother’s recipe. Besides, I don’t think my parents serve Scotch at those parties anyway...
...With his dad??s instruction and the aid of a football, Brunnig worked on getting down the rhythm, using his ability to throw a spiral as an indicator of his progress...
...dad??s one of my heroes. He’s a big hero for me. I wrote a piece about him for Fashions of the Times, the [New York] Times Sunday magazine. He worked two full-time jobs. He left the house when it was dark and came home when it was dark—in winter and summer, it didn’t matter. He worked so I could do what I wanted to do. He is a really heroic figure to me and never complained about work a day in his life, and is, at this...
...begin writing until late in her college career. “I was reluctant to start writing in college because it was my dad??s thing,” she explains, adding that his style “is very different than mine...