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...with incredible fluency, not an “um” or “like” in sight. He had good posture. He made eye contact. No surprise, he was continuing mock trial and speech and debate at the college level. Sitting across from him on the futon, I felt a little hunched and inarticulate. What exactly did he want to do as president? I asked. What kinds of changes did he want to make? “A theme in the future that I’d really be honored to work on is focusing on collaboration...
...actually is. Your roommate might wait until graduation to tell you this, but they can always hear you. ALWAYS. And don’t think you’re being respectful by moving things into the common room. Your roommates will eventually realize that the mysterious stains on the futon are not from Chinese takeout...
...particularly disastrous senior fall. I walked back to Dunster, as per usual spilling coffee on myself and stepping in puddles on an uneven DeWolfe Street, and found that my eight male roommates had used the last of our toilet paper to mop up beer. I curled up on our futon and cried, cursing womanhood, the Cambridge weather, and Crimson-induced stress...
...available at Lamont, and it stars Mikhail Baryshnikov, the Russian heartthrob best known by our generation as Carrie’s sixth-season love interest on “Sex and the City.” So mix up a strong peppermint (Schnapps) hot cocoa, settle into your comfy futon, and prepare for a trip to 19th-century Germany. There, you can lose yourself in yuletide festivities and dream sequences with Clara (Gelsey Kirkland) and her Nutcracker Prince (Baryshnikov). Just don’t expect to see the traditional roles of the Sugar Plum Fairy or Mother Ginger; Baryshnikov...
...protestations ultimately ring hollow; they are still trafficking in promises of money. They don’t realize that they are also trafficking in emotions. After all, how can an insurance check for a few hundred dollars come close to replacing one’s trusty old college futon, spilled on after a particularly rambunctious meal, stained from a singularly ill-advised nocturnal encounter, or torn apart from an unfortunately un-housebroken pre-frosh? Sentimental value is more than a cliché. Especially to college students who leave the College with nothing but their ratty futons and memories. We will...