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Miss Baker was the kind of English teacher who had cats. Lots of them. While she had her friendly moments, which included treating her students to stale, generic-brand candy leftover from Halloweens past, she was the kind of teacher who got some kind of pleasure from pouring salt in the hormonal wounds of her pubescent students.I fell victim to her sick game when I boldly disagreed with her evaluation of Scout in “To Kill a Mockingbird...
Years later, I’m an English concentrator at Harvard. Boy, did I show her! But sometimes I wonder if my decision to concentrate in English, or maybe every decision I’ve ever made, has been an attempt to show Miss Baker that I’m not, in fact, an airhead. For the past ten years, I’ve been blindly guided by the deep need to prove the Miss Bakers of the world wrong...
...this insecurity results in a daily battle against the airheaded seventh-grade Julia. Note to self: appear brooding in English seminar even if have not completed reading. Note to self: Pamplona is for hipsters only, do not go there in workout clothes; hipsters don’t work out. The list goes...
...Julia M. Spiro ’10 is an English concentrator in Pforzheimer House. She’s not a natural blonde...
...real ethic of volunteerism in our generation. I’m not sure where this comes from, but I’m sure I’m not the only person interested in this at Harvard,” he said. Higgins spent two months abroad teaching English in Uganda for New Hope Ministries, an NGO founded and run entirely by Ugandans that cares for orphans and vulnerable children. Noticing a severe lack of funding resources, Higgins returned to the States in hopes of setting up a financial network to support the foundation...