Word: factly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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These are sentiments that cannot be publicly expressed, but find a way to make themselves known to other people despite it. “Due to the fact that I must now share a bathroom with 5 other people, I am no longer bulimic. Instead of throwing up, I no longer eat. Hello anorexia. FML.” Harvard, apparently not unlike Yale, BU, MIT, Wellesley and other schools which have also started local fmylife blogs, are social bodies in which there is a growing community around the fact that a lot goes unsaid. But it is being said anyway?...
Indeed, though much of the press about Harvardfml has been negative, pointing to its posts as evidence of privileged Harvard students’ self-centered or isolationist tendencies, the blog offers evidence of a shared experience students go through together. The fact that there are reoccurring characters in the posts, that there are statements made that go unchallenged, and that the blog itself reflects what is being talked about on campus are all evidence of cohesion. Anyone who has visited the site more than once will have learned that CS50 is hard, but that there is an attractive...
...earlier version of the Dec. 11 news article "Harvard Amends Charlesview Plans" incorrectly stated in the headline and elsewhere in the piece that the University was changing its plans with regards to the Charlesview Apartments. In fact, the plans in question were those of the Charlesview Board of Directors...
...article also incorrectly stated that Harvard had plans to destroy the Charlesview complex. In fact, though residents expressed concern about the possibility of such a move at last nights meeting, the University has not finalized any plans...
...article also may have incorrectly implied that Charlesview residents would be relocated into Harvard-owned buildings in Allston. In fact, though the land where the residents will be relocated is currently owned by the University, it will be exchanged with the Charlesview Board as part of a land swap agreement...