Word: enjoying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Enjoy the attention. It'll never happen like this again. And don't let anyone rope you into working or comping (a fancy word for competing, or trying out) for 100 different groups if you don't want to. There's a chance much of your undergraduate career will center on some organization, but you'll have to find out about academics here before you'll know exactly what you can handle. At Harvard, it really is impossible to be head of the Student Assembly, the Advocate and the orchestra and still maintain straight...
Approach #6. The Cool-o-Matic Approach. This is it. Sashay your way through Freshman Week without pain or loss of all-important style points. If you want to enjoy your week, do it this way. Arrive a little bit late, at the risk of being stuck with the living room or the misfit in your rooming group. Yeah, that's right, the 400-pound sumo wrestler from East Schneck who listens to opera real loud, and picks his nose...
...time partying with a carefully selected group of equally cool people. Be polite, and willing to joke around, but don't hesitate to avoid obviously dull people and crowded parties with a lot of insecure types. Don't let anything bother you. If you stay cool, you can actually enjoy the week, because you won't be frazzled or unnerved too fast. Pace yourself. You've got all week, and then four years--eternity, practically, stretching out ahead of you. Keep the week in perspective and you're golden...
...much time to flee, and that you'll want to find a spot isolated from roommates typing Expos papers and neighbors blasting Springsteen out the window. Tucked away in odd corners, Harvard does provide idyllic spots for contemplation, quiet places where you can sit back for a moment and enjoy being alive...
...there is no pretense that it is not coming. Daniel and a buddy persuade Lauren to see a porno flick. She watches for a few minutes, then walks out, feeling sick. Daniel follows, ashamed of himself, trying to comfort her. Lauren nods; she is all right. She did not enjoy her view of the hydraulics of sex, but it has done no damage. The viewer feels that real children are, in fact, like this...