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After ten years of constant suppression of my airheadedness, I was starting to feel the emotional wear and tear of this battle of attrition. That’s when the glasses found me, just in time...
...They found me on an average stroll through Urban Outfitters. With no luck in the clothing department, I began mindlessly thumbing through the racks of neon sunglasses. One pair in particular beckoned me, though it was the plainest of the bunch: they were faux reading glasses with black frames and clear lenses. I pulled them on like armor. My metamorphosis had finally arrived. I was no longer the airhead, I was the coveted, feared, admired intellectual. I immediately bought them...
...wake-up call came like any other average epiphany. I was leafing through US Weekly, alone in the privacy of my room, when I found myself reaching for my glasses as though I actually, physically needed them to read. With my hands on the pair, ready to put them on, I suddenly stopped myself. What was I DOING? It instantly dawned on me just how absurd the whole experiment had become. I had literally tricked myself into thinking that I needed these fake glasses to read about Jessica Simpson’s latest weight gain...
...through their guilty pleasure reading, but Lindsey E. Gary ’06, feels right at home in Hollywood. A successful art director, Gary’s designs serve as the backdrop for blockbusters like Pirates of the Caribbean II & III, Tropic Thunder, and Jurassic Park III. She found time between partying with Robert Downey Jr. and preparing for her next project, The Social Network, to revisit her Harvard days at Currier House and share her wisdom on the film industry...
...feel about being “quadded” when you received your housing letter freshman spring? Lindsey E. Gary ’06: (LEG): Actually as a freshman, I lived in Greenough—our whole blocking group did—and when we found out we were in Currier House, we just felt like the fates of Harvard were against us. We were always pushed to the extremities of the campus. But we soon learned that the other people who were also in Currier House were really awesome and we warmed up to the idea...