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...sometimes with a check in hand—will be like getting a divorce settlement, but I will always carry this place with me, even if I don’t think of it consciously. Like the bride being carried among the fields, I don’t know what the world outside of my old home will look like. I don’t know what it’s like to pay the rent or cook several meals a day, but I trust that the hands that have held me up will help...
...answering their questions about research opportunities for undergraduates at Harvard. “How easy is it for undergraduates, especially freshmen, to get involved in research in the life sciences at Harvard?” one of them asked. What they really wanted to know was, “If I am interested in doing research in the life sciences, tell me why I should come to Harvard...
Looking over old syllabi, I find readings I wish I had done, classes I wish I had gone to, professors I wish I had gotten to know. A part of me thinks, “Well, if these things really were important to me, I would have done them! Priorities are revealed in actions.” But I would be hard pressed to argue that watching the same episode of Family Guy three times was more important or a better use of my time than going to a molecular and cellular biology lecture. The next time around...
...reading” in Loker, I continued to be lured back by such a majestic setting to complete such a commonplace task as studying. In all the hours I have since spent in that library, I have found that Widener demands of its visitors the patience to get to know it, so that its seemingly impersonal character might become hospitable and welcoming...
...pursuit of my solitary thesis study, I watched the ebb and flow of people around me, the belly of the beast swelling to capacity in the early afternoon hours, dwindling around dinnertime at six, and emptying by closing at ten. Over the course of weeks, I came to know my fellow Widener devotees by their study habits, their preferred seats, and sometimes by their propensity toward flatulence. And if I found myself in Loker alone at the end of the night, as happened on a few occasions, I took advantage of the chance to fulfill the tempting desire...