Word: likelies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enough to choose the President, to fight and die for our country, to buy cigarettes and pornography. Student organizations run national events like "Evening with Champions." Let's Go--written and published exclusively by Harvard students--is the number one budget travel series in America. Every year selected theses are deemed worthy additions to the body of knowledge. In light of these accomplishments of organization, commitment and intelligence, the campus-wide preoccupation with not becoming adults--which I share--seems delusional. We're already doing all the things that adults...
Even if you're not a student who treats their extra-curriculars or their school work like a job and even if you don't spend 70 hours a week at the Advocate, Phillips Brooks House or Cabot library, you're still an adult. Want proof? When you're in a book store, do you shop at the "young adult" section? When you sign an official document does your guardian have to sign it also? When you go away for the weekend, do you have to call your mother and tell her you got in safely? Are there name tags...
...were actually a kid, however, he would have realized how unpleasant it is. In reality, kids have little personal freedom and even less privacy. Their lives are constantly regulated by their parents in the form of curfews and dress codes and scrutinized by their peers--ew, where did you like, dig up that outfit? Those who resent the authoritarian aspects of Harvard's administration would do well to remember the absolutism of high school regulations, which included uniforms, rules against public displays of affection, bans on beepers, requirements to use only transparent bookbags and educational requirements that make the core...
...popular image of grown ups is just as flawed as that of J. M. Barrie. Some people picture grown ups as though they're eternally trapped by mortgage payments, income taxes, marriage, alimony and/or dead end jobs. Adults seem to have less freedom than kids. Grown ups are like pin balls whose trajectories are defined by a series of obstacles that bounce them in a meaningless direction. After shooting out of college at high speed you slam into a four-figure monthly rent and you careen towards a career in I-banking. You're hit by 90-hour weeks...
...great! Except there was this one really weird staffer who kept on talking to me and acting like she was my age. It was really annoying...