Word: griffins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, the experience did not help his water polo. For religious reasons, Griffin did not swim in those two years. "It was not so bad because you are always walking or biking around," he recalls. "And it always seemed like your contact is living on the top floor...
...Griffin's time in the 100-meter freestyle had become 10 seconds slower when he came back to Harvard in the fall of last year. But teammate Eric Bentley recalls that Griffin quickly improved by "simply working hard. You can always count on him. The fact that he is always working hard is a dependable factor in the team...
Fellow Tri-Captain Nick Branca says that "you can always count on the right side of the pool to work hard" because of Griffin. "He seems like he can never really go slow. We obviously miss him on Sundays, [when Griffin is unable to play for religious reasons]," Branca adds...
...Griffin had to adjust outside the pool as well after returning from Germany. "You suddenly have your private concerns," he says. He noted that he had to adjust to thinking and writing critically in English again, and not to put the verbs at the end of sentences...
...Griffin has adjusted his career plans also. He was a pre-med before he left for Germany, but he is not so sure that he wants to become a physician anymore. He has changed his concentration from physics to history and science and his future plans include getting a public-sector job in Germany after graduating from Harvard...