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...once students get here, most of them realize that they can’t always be the special snowflake. Sometime during Freshman Orientation, it becomes clear to the members of each new class that the smartest kid from high school is now just another kid in the entryway. Yet even as students develop a degree of modesty and homogenize into one of the 1,000 people in Ec 10, the entitlement continues to bleed into their more modest existence. The lingering need to be on top results in the unintentionally hilarious accumulation of officer positions, academic prizes, and memberships...
...sound of the train of fun coming to a halt.” We won’t be able to slip-and-slide on the Quad, play paintball on a Tuesday, or visit a brewery in the middle of the week. Unless you want be that kid that keeps coming back after graduation to pretend as though it never ended, the lifestyle of a college student becomes instantly harder to justify after June 7. Not impossible—but it will soon fall under the general heading of alcoholism. [SEE CORRECTION...
...really over. After a heated, Iraq-themed on-air exchange with Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Rosie O'Donnell won't return to The View. "I didn't really fit into the family, and now it's time for the foster kid to go back home," she said on ROSIE.COM, prompting friend Nora Ephron to write on THE HUFFINGTON POST, "I feel sad/ And full of woe/ I am going to miss/ My Ro." SCORE...
...interview, Seidel said that his two areas of emphasis will be “making sure that we are providing every kid with an excellent education” and “tackling the high cost of housing” in the city. He said that these two issues will play a large part in determining what Cambridge will look like “10 or 20 years in the future...
...almost the midway point of his timetable, however, many observers say Daley's plan is a pretty vision - of a city dressed up with flowers and new parks and without a man or woman or kid in need - but lacks a workable way to fulfill it. "The city hasn't pledged its own wallet, and that pretty much makes it impossible," says Julie Dworkin, policy director at the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless. Although $150 million was invested in the cause last year, and some $400 million has been pledged since the plan became public in 2003, critics point...