Word: joined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year will remind you of your high school student council--lots of candidates, slogans and earnest campaigning. People you know will plunge into big, hierarchical organizations like the IOP and The Crimson because they desperately need someone to give them a structure for their ambition. (Those lucky souls that join The Crimson will find that great journalism is fulfilling in its own right. Those who go to the IOP will find, well, each other.) But most of your class will plunge into a world with dozens of concentrations, bajillions of classes, and hundreds of extracurriculars--a world where there...
...begin figuring out where you really fit in a three-dimensional world. It will be amazing to see l,600 merit scholars fan out, like light through a prism, into a class with jocks, nerds, class clowns, artists and every other teenage demographic. Some poor souls will even join the Harvard Lampoon; a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. In order to find where you want to go in this fanning-out, you will need people to argue and laugh with. And the best time to find these people will...
...fact, high school stuff might not be such a great idea, after all. At Harvard, you have the opportunity to be someone completely new. That varsity football letter jacket might be hard to explain if you come here and decide you want to join, say, the Chess Club...
...sulking on your bunk bed when the rest of the proctor group forgets to invite you to watch "Dawson's Creek" with them or your teaching fellow puts you down in section--again. Enjoy the melodrama of these moments. Write a poem or two. If they're good, join the Advocate. If not, go back out into the wild unknown and chart your path...
...instantly disliked the new version. True, the changed is pretty minor: instead of "Fair Harvard! Thy sons to thy jubilee throng" it was, "Fair Harvard! We join in thy jubilee throng." Only one phrase in the whole first verse had been revised, a fairly innocuous change. But word choice is not the issue. The words are fine, except that they have been altered...