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...revealed expurgated versions of my life, about term papers handed in late and the unchaperoned party, enough so that she wouldn't completely discount me as a dork sitting alone every Saturday night. We made it through adolescence without disaster and have entered a period when the perils of parenting have given way to the joys of it. And I've yet to tell her what I really did during the '70s. My own mother was fond of sighing deeply and saying, to explain anything I didn't like, "You'll understand when you have a child of your...
...pastime among students. If I ever see two people going at it when I am trying to find a book on 17th-century German folk dancing, I will have no qualms about picking up the nearest blue light centrex phone and calling the campus police. Fine, I'm a dork. I use the library for educational purposes and the laundry room for washing my clothes. One of the reasons I came to Harvard was for the fornication-free stacks and dryers that President Rudenstine promised me in the brochure...
...hours later, my Mac "eep" ed again, signaling the arrival of a second message from St. Louis, bearing the subject line "Gupton, How Can You Be Such A F***ing Dork?" This e-mail, allegedly sent by Brian's roommate Adam, read, in part: "In reading over your resume packed full of things which would make any God-fearing rotarian cum in his pants, I found myself repeatedly drawn back to a single question. Why have you been allowed to live?... You should have been tossed to the wolves the second you thought of mentioning your distinction as an (drumroll...
...very juicy, I said, but not compared with the Forbes campaign. Steve Forbes, doing that great comedy-club impression of what would happen if some mad scientist decided to construct a dork robot, turned out to be, when inserted into the Republican presidential campaign, a walking fragmentation bomb...
Some students laugh at the assertion that "everyone is a dork who studies too much in the library," saying a school comprised of such a population is rather humorously embarrassing. Others, however, acknowledge that they "wish there was more casual dating." When they stop to think about it, they say they feel sad and frustrated with the present system...