Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if you think that it is obvious that you meant to invite the two of us, it's never perfectly obvious unless you're explicit. However, if you know one roommate better, I think it's acceptable to just add a tagline like, "bring a friend" or "bring your blockmates...
Thus, woven into the story are amusing but nevertheless tender accounts of what it meant to grow up in a world built entirely on a pretense of keeping up appearances. But just like all those lost and mentally unstable Lowells and Winslows (the author's equally snobbish relatives on the paternal side), Cousin itself is never quite sure what it is. At times it is a barrage of various bildungsroman tales, the coming-of-age stories of various Lowell and Winslow family scions. At other times it is a relentless catalogue of family members moving in and out of prep...
Imagine a world where men and women walked down the street sporting holsters rather than cellular phone cases. Imagine a world where the size of your caliber meant more than the size of your bonus. Inside Manchester, New Hampshire's Wolf Firearms, it is not so hard. Located on a barren street sandwiched between enormous factory outlet stores, Wolf's range is the nearest shooting range to Boston open to the general, non-gun-owning public...
Going to Harvard is one of the things I've accomplished that I'm most proud of. I learned how to live proactively, making choices about what was more and less important to me. This meant skipping that party on a Saturday night to finally finish Middlemarch, or going out for a Bellhaven the night before the "Matter in the Universe" midterm. At Harvard, I learned that being good to myself meant balancing academic priorities against the other things going on in my life...
Looking for a job meant Meghan had to think about her responsibility to herself. It meant leaving a strange building in an unfamiliar neighborhood with genuine doubts about her ability to handle that state-of-the-art copy machine. I think she would agree with me when I say looking for a job is the most debilitating thing I've ever done. Harvard has amazing resources and its students should certainly take advantage of them. But four years go by quickly and soon you'll be looking for an apartment and cooking your own meals...