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...Three DVDs...
There’s mischief afoot in Eliot House as students impatiently wait for their Netflix DVDs. A flurry of e-mails has recently crossed the Eliot House open list, sent by distraught students seeking explanations for their missing movies. As time passes and odds of a legitimate mailroom mix-up dwindle, students are beginning to point fingers. First-time Netflix user Kathleen A. Fedornak ’07 is anticipating the arrival of two films that are already more than a week late. Her roommate, in the middle of a thesis-writing cram session, was looking forward...
...bags in stately Greenough Hall, and I was a very different person. The last two and a half years have taught me a lot—about sustainability, about effective advocacy, and about myself. (One learns quite quickly one’s tolerance for PBR, the Kong, and DVDs of the syndicated television show “Stargate.”) I came roaring into freshman year as a knee-jerk liberal, ready for a life-changing experience. Wide-eyed optimism led me, as it has led freshmen since time immemorial, to join every possible student group. I canvassed...
...some level a tactile experience: with e-texts, the words become essential and the physicality of the object disappears. The literature can be put online, but not the book. And book buyers want the book. This has helped preserve the book even while CDs became MP3s and VHS became DVDs. New technology has not transformed the form of the media, but rather how people acquire it. In the last 10 years, physical bookstores have been increasingly abandoned for sites like Amazon.com that offer books at cheaper prices. But Amazon is not without its drawbacks: when consumers purchase books online, browsing...
...From coffee you added tea and baked goods and lunch items and CDs and books and DVDs; and now breakfast. Starbucks has installed an oven in its stores to warm its new egg/cheese/meat breakfast combos. And you wonder where the coffee smell has gone? I just know that somebody in HQ is going to ask the logical question, if they haven't already: What else can we run through those ovens? We're only using them in the morning. Why not cookies? Or pizza? Or pretzels? Or tacos...