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...thought I knew Harvard. Privy to its pompous reputation, I quickly decided that I didn’t need to visit. Besides, I’d already heard that the social life paled in comparison to the raging parties at state schools; that students sacrificed Saturday nights to do homework; and that after a lifetime of success and accolades, overachievers often became dismayed to find themselves the little fish in a big pond. I wanted college to be fun, social and, of course, the best four years of my life. Plainly put, I didn’t think Harvard could...
With respect to our “barred” windows, Lurie really should do his homework. Only the first floor of one entryway has barred windows and very few of our windows actually face Mather. I, for instance, am writing this letter while looking out of my window onto a beautiful view of the Charles River and Week’s footbridge. I invite any first-years to check out this view, because it takes my breath away. In fact, I invite Lurie to share this view whenever he would like. It’s probably been a long...
Marsh did his best to turn in papers and finish assignments in high school, but minor technicalities like calculus homework couldn’t stifle his blossoming circus career...
...Whatever the genes that produced him, Ted radiated a comic precocity. For the high school newspaper he wrote parodies of poems and contributed humorous drawings. At Dartmouth he stretched the limits of homework, writing a "book report" of the Boston & Maine Railroad timetable as if it were a modern novel: "Chapter 18 is word for word exactly the same as Chapter 17, only it is run backwards." Ted joined the campus humor magazine, Jack-O-Lantern, where he became editor-in-chief, until removed as punishment for the drinking incident. (Prohibition was in force, not only making Ted's spree...
...late as we like or drink too much or hook up with each other without anyone’s noticing, much less caring. For the first time, we can spend hours on extracurricular activities without anyone’s asking us if we’ve done our homework, or if we’ve eaten dinner or if we oughtn’t to go to bed. For the first time, no one is preventing us from doing things to excess...