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...When they asked me what I learned sitting there in Science Center C, what sprung to mind was not skeletal systems or plate tectonics, but how my roommate created an aggressively lewd anagram to remember therapods. But once upon a time, science was my passion. In grade school, I was fascinated by lab experiments, class field trips to the Museum of Natural History, and, most of all, my parents’ jobs. Ironically, I also happened to memorize a lot of facts about dinosaurs.My Halloween costume was not only easy to make and reproduce year after year. Having been raised...
...experimentation. But once we probe the fallacies of these rationalizations, I hope that an 11 p.m. bedtime will seem a bit more appealing.Certainly staying up too late is one of the most time-honored affronts to authority. That’s why slumber parties were so great in grade school. We could eat horribly fattening food, throw ice cubes in each other’s sleeping bags, and make all sorts of obnoxious noises while adults tried futilely to calm us down—a situation not at all dissimilar from the Hong Kong on a typical weekend night.Of course...
...more, I had to admit, than is going on with me. Amish churches, he said, will spend the next year wrestling over whether to allow members to own cell phones. This seemed odd to me, since Amish beliefs forbid members to drive a car, go to school past eighth grade or have phones in their homes. But someone found a loophole in the phone rule, discovering it was very specific about not allowing wires from the outside world into their houses. They can't use electricity from public-utility grids either, which you would think would mean having...
...Andrew E.F. Gordon ’09, who was a sophomore when Ambrogi was a senior at St. Joseph’s, and who also went to grade school with Ambrogi and his younger brother, remembered Ambrogi as a “hero running back” who was the talk of the school for days before and after each football game...
...reality.Little did we know when we came here that these stellar professors and this incomparable education would be kept at arms length from us by an unfortunate institution, guarded by a team of generally incompetent graduate students who presume to have the authority and the expertise to instruct and grade. These people, barely older than we are, control our lives for several hours each week. Yes, my friends, I speak of that peculiar and misguided aspect of a Harvard education so misrepresented in the brochures and misapplied in practice—the section and its accompanying TF.The section, at least...