Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trusted my classmates at Harvard, a group of people so exceptional in every other respect, that they should naturally be morally superior as well. I trusted them not to walk into my dorm room and steal my computer. I trusted them not to swipe my TI-83 off my desk in the library when I went to the bathroom. I trusted them to return my ID card to me when I lost...
...idea of going to medical school when she was an undergraduate. "If I can save someone's life or even help a little kid who has broken his leg, I'll feel like I'm really making a difference. You just don't get that feeling sitting behind a desk...
...literary life that enlivened Bech: A Book (1970) and Bech Is Back (1982). The five stories that make up this new installment of the saga show an older and grumpier Bech still worrying about his long bouts of writer's block and finding ways of getting away from his desk whenever he can. On a State Department-sponsored junket to communist Prague in the mid-1980s, Bech meets dissident Czech writers and begins to envy them for living in a place where literature is considered important enough to suppress...
Noel Rodriguez '99 had a similar experience. Rodriguez also worked first yeardining when she arrived on campus, first in the old Union and then in Annenberg, but has held a desk job in the Dunster House library since sophomore year...
Students say mixing with the general publicmakes these jobs appealing, more so than desk jobsin campus offices or libraries, and definitelymore varied than undergraduate dining halls. YayoiJ. Shionoiri '00 says her job at the Seattle'sBest coffee cart in the Science Center puts her inan even better position to meet people...