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...memory of my mother that lives with me is a life of mere instants. There is no attachment of recollection to bits of her reality, to things I’ve held on to. College is often a movement towards independence, towards self-sufficiency, but I find myself dependent on new associations I must form, on fickle and unknown emotions in unknown places...
...mere 0.7-second win, Harvard’s two-seat, come-from-behind over Northeastern on Saturday spoke volumes...
...would probably be ignored, or laughed at, or punched in the face. But, somehow, such encounters are possible on the Internet—and the Internet came alive at MIT this past Friday and Saturday at the first-ever conference for Internet phenomena: ROFLCon. ROFLCon’s mere existence is worthy of a big fat star on the timeline of cultural history. The Internet meme, which is anything on the web—be it a video or an Internet celebrity—that gets picked up and sent around to tons of viewers, has become a new cultural...
...energy to gain any traction, and as a consequence, few professors have undertaken the task of creating courses for this nascent program. Only 16 Gen Ed courses will be offered next fall, and only six more have been approved for the 2009-2010 academic year. In fact, a mere 40 proposals have even been submitted, many of which are nothing more than adapted Core courses...
...incoming freshmen, who know relatively little about these changes, be expected to make informed decisions about competing curricula? Freshmen advisors complain of having been left in the dark, too, in spite of the fact that they will be expected to advise new students a mere four months from now. All of this, and administrators are hardly apologetic...