Word: helpness
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...couldn’t help but feel so socially inadequate. What had I done wrong? I had friends. I was friendly. Maybe too friendly? Maybe friendly in the wrong kind of way. People liked me. People liked me? I thought people liked me. Somewhere along the line I had just messed things up. I blamed it on the fact that I hadn’t bought a futon for my five-person suite freshman year. The futon would have brought us together the way Harvard wanted. If only I’d bought a futon. I tried to forget about...
...drink on our futon. We ate drunk food late at night on the futon. We talked about the people we were dating on the futon and months later when we broke up with those people we talked about them even more on the futon. With the help of a droopy red couch, two floaters became friends...
...Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy—which bans homosexuals from serving openly in the military—Faust seemed to allude to the policy when she asked the recently minted officers to “help reinforce the long tradition of ties between Harvard and military service, as we share hopes that changing circumstances will soon enable us to further strengthen those bonds...
...audience was then instructed either to fill out the envelope with a known teacher's address or to "write facts that will help us reach them" on the reverse of the slip of paper. Letters placed in the "impromptu 'mailbox' in front of Gutman Library sometime between now and Friday afternoon" will be stamped and delivered to the teachers, by mail, or any means possible, according to the paper distributed to the audience...
...Jennings, an education at Harvard was a mandate to help less-privileged people, he said...