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This piece originally appeared in the January 23, 1967 issue of the Crimson, and was written by George H. Rosen '68. We re-run it for two reasons: one, this is exam period, and two, wisdom is timeless. Cambridge may have more snow than it needs, and Roast Beef Specials are up to $1.10, but some things never change...
THOUGHTS ARE errant during exam period. The worlds of fact and doctrine ("Birds cannot actually fly; they are merely prodigious leapers!") collide with the grim fantasies spawned by anxiety ("Perhaps there will be an earthquake and we won't have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow. ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60 cents ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches, Boston would...
...warm reassurance of love not dependant on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid, would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhileration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this exam period. Hell, no, I unicycle to Revere Beach every morning...
...harder than I thought it would be," Said Gregg Lueder '81. "You think you've prepared well enough, but the actual exam is harder to do under pressure...
...intimidated when I walked in to the exam, but now I'm very unawed," said Martha G. Finnemore '81. "I thought it was very straightforward and not as difficult as I thought it would...