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...many elements of the undergraduate experience coalesce within the confines of the archetypal coffee shop: caffeine-addled study sessions, flirtatious glances over sourcebooks, heated yet meaningless discussions of self-important pseudo-intellectuals. The ideal collegiate coffee shop sells more than lemon cakes and Ecuadorian brews: in its role as an informal campus meet-n-greet...
House: Currier Concentration: ESP (P) Hometown: North Attleboro, MA / Turku, Finland Ideal Date: Crazy cuisine I’ve never tried before followed by some public destination-enhanced recreational activities. Best way for a girl to get your attention: Quirky fashion sense, including birthday-oriented attire. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Pregame with my teammates then out on the streets...literally. First thing you notice about a girl: Ability to dance, followed quickly by ability to not bore me to death. Your best pick-up line: No words, a little eye contact foreplay followed by smile...
...poetry—managing a million sliding scales at once: sound and sense, denotation and connotation, visuality and aurality—is one thing. Communicating effectively—sensibly, accurately, and (hopefully) with grace—is another. The first is, at my current level of fluency, a Platonic ideal; the second, the oft-cited and ostensible goal of studying a foreign language abroad...
Last week, we ran into each other at a place that is supposed to guard a treasure more precious than Harvard’s endowment: the soul of its liberal arts education. The Core Office on Dunster Street, however, is far from this ideal. It is a bureaucratic black hole from which dissolves any semblance of coherence in the curriculum...
...Both the ideal of equal educational opportunity and the reality of our country's future standing in the world demand that academia not be distracted by internecine debates in which relatively little will be gained or lost, regardless of who is right, and instead focus our efforts on providing a quality education and increasing financial aid based on need for all students.IT'S ALSO FASCINATING to read Gutmann's salvo in light of today's Crimson scoop on her travels to Cambridge this weekend. Surprised by reporters outside her hotel, Gutmann sort-of repeated her sort-of denial...