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Assume your readership is exactly like you: Don’t bother with readers who might differ from you in their perspectives or backgrounds. Are you rich, white, preppy, and racially insensitive? Then why not build your Princeton “outsider cred” by sticking this line into your fashion review: “The first pink polo shirt I ever saw on a male…was six sizes too big on the back of a huge black dude with diamond earrings that were way bigger than the ones my grandparents gave me for my bat mitzvah...
...don’t think they differ so much. I think most men also want to have a relationship and not sex. I think that it is a bit of a myth...that men only want ‘sex and goodnight’ or ‘sex and goodbye...
...collection of short stories, “Twilight of the Superheroes,” demonstrates her utter mastery of characterization and transcends petty provincialism, instead exploring complex relationships of all sorts and the various ways in which they intertwine and affect the individual. Though the characters in each story differ vastly from each other in circumstances and personality, they all share the common thread of facing some sort of personal distress. Eisenberg tells each story from multiple perspectives to capture this distress, switching seamlessly from third person narrative to interior monologue. These transitions are initially confusing, but as the story...
...Most Harvard students do not have healthy sleep patterns. In this regard, we do not differ from most of our peers at other colleges. In a 2004 book titled “College of the Overwhelmed” Chief of Mental Health Richard D. Kadison of Harvard University Health Services (UHS) cites reports in a 2004 book titled that less than 11% of college students nation-wide were getting “a good night’s sleep” on a regular basis. Harvard, in particular, fosters an exceptionally insidious anti-sleep culture that compounds the conventional collegiate...
...today’s creative writing program. The program functions largely as an autonomous body: The creative writing faculty makes most of their administrative decisions independently, and some of the instructors aren’t even affiliated with the English department. “There is a drastic difference between the curriculum of the creative writing department and the curriculum of the critical and analytical [track],” says Daniel G. Donoghue, the department’s Director of Undergraduate Studies and the Marquand Professor of English. But despite this functional autonomy, the creative writing program remains formally included...