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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Others, like Yong Zhou, a fifth-year Boston University graduate student who had a close friend shot at the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, were more critical...
...when I heard the words "I really hate this school." It was at that point that I realized why I don't stop when I see people crying in the yard, why I avoid people who are stomping to class and why I don't stick around when a friend's computer breaks or they lose a reserve book or their boyfriend dumps them for a Boston University woman...
...weeks ago, the inevitable happened: a friend approached me and my roommates about giving to the Senior Gift. (Fear not, loyal Crimson readers. This is not another column about the Senior Gift.) Our classmate gave us the big sales pitch for why Harvard deserves our support: the incredible resources, the Faculty, the libraries and labs. And, inevitably, one of my roommates made one of the usual objections, that her friends, not the institution, had made her Harvard years memorable...
Many of us have spent most of our college years being what we like to call "over-committed"-to classes, to student organizations, to jobs, to everything. But in reality we are more often under-committed, investing too little in our friends and our selves. One of the most common misconceptions around here is that extracurricular activities are important and essential, but stopping to greet a friend on the street is optional. It amounts to an enormously distorted lens through which students determine what's worth doing...
...seeing the giant dump truck blocking your way, you notice the driver's wedding ring and wonder for a moment if he has any children at home. You see something cool in a bookstore's window, and you go in and buy it. You stop to talk to a friend to whom you would normally have been satisfied asking that unanswered question, "What...