Word: east
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure, and cast greedy eyes on credit cards, care packages and family visits that might help me make the transition from Dallas to the East more smoothly. But, despite my anticipated (and realistic) longings for the creature comforts of home, a look back at first year convinces me that both my parents and old Polonius knew what they were talking about. As a veteran of roommate wars over the surreptitiously borrowed and later stained white shirt or formal dress, I will be the first to say that borrowing and lending can have their disadvantages...
This is not to say that I did not learn countless positive things my first year in the East; it is just to say that in doing so, I realized I could not reject what had formed me since birth...
...rather than get myself into confusing situations, I have found that when I am true to myself, as Polonius suggests, I have had great times at Harvard--eating picante sauce with Cape Cod potato chips, dating whom I want, even if he might be from the East Coast, and being honest with my friends...
...formed a few theories about Harvard that evening. For example, I decided that Pennypacker Hall--site of that night's big party--must be located somewhere east of hell. And I learned that the fishbowl room at Herrell's is NOT the place to go after seven shots of vodka chased down with warm keg beer...
...designer Issey Miyake are famous abroad, but contemporary visual art from Japan is still little known in the West. The first major U.S. museum show from Japan in more than 20 years brings American audiences up-to-date with a survey of new work from the cultural center of East Asia. Through...