Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some assumed that we would all live together, but, once again, I was not so sure. Rather than say anything about making alternate plans, I kept quiet, because I didn't really know what I thought, and I didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings...
...when the subject came up, I had to confess that I was living with other people in Thayer and Mass. Hall. What could have been totally friendly became tense for awhile because I still didn't know myself...
People would ask me if I was nervous. I just nodded, all the time thinking, "Didn't I just finish three years in a large boarding school? Didn't I come from New York City? Wasn't I likely to know at least 10 percent of my class? Wasn't I ready to take on Harvard...
...annoying. He seemed to expect so much from me, and I just didn't feel up to it. He would ask me what was wrong with me if I took a nap in the afternoon. (Sleeping a lot is, indeed, a common symptom of depression, but I didn't know that then...
...looked at one another. I know that I atleast was somewhat awed and disturbed by the ideathat our relationship would at some point becomejust another story, one small bit of an entireHarvard experience. And then we began to thinkabout how the mythical first-year piece wouldbegin...