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...applied for an internship at NYC2012, the organization bidding for a New York Olympic Games in 2012. With nothing but camp on my resume, I got a job working for the staff writer. Sitting at my desk on the 34th floor, I overlook the World Trade Center site as I write newsletter articles and web updates, and research venues and sports history...
...instead of sneakers. I had to stop singing songs about underwear and start nodding off to my headphones on the subway. Gone were the days of the 3:30 ice cream refreshment. While everyone in my office heads down for their daily dosage of Starbucks, I sit at my desk forlornly because I don’t like coffee. After counting adults among my colleagues and buying an article of clothing from Brooks Brothers for the first time, it seemed inevitable that I could never go back to camp...
Hana R. Alberts ’06, a Crimson editor, is a history and science concentrator in Mather House. She spends her days missing Camp Hillard’s ice cream snack at 3:30 every afternoon. To compensate, she eats a granola bar at her desk. It’s better than a grande frappuccino...
...Smithsonian owns the desk on which Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, but my thoughts keep wandering back to that recipe. Jefferson bothered to find the recipe from a French acquaintance, to write it down, to keep it in good condition and to give it to his cook back in Virginia. While it may seem a small item, it demonstrates that even in the midst of the history-changing events he was engaged in, Jefferson still maintained his attention to detail, his level of attachment to France and his commitment to preserving what, to him, was the essence of experiencing...
Another twitches excitedly in his chair, then blurts out his realization that the number one raised to any positive power is equal to itself. He slams his hand on his desk...