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Much of this impression is my own fault. There are almost a thousand varsity athletes on campus—maybe four of them are even acquaintances of mine (varsity athletes tend not to major in computer science). I covered hockey regularly for two years and, thanks to a Memento-like inability to remember faces, still cannot identify more than four or five players on the team...
...ronique: Mine plummets. In classic fashion, I freak out, helping her up and shouting, “Oh my God, did you fall on your head? Did you hurt your head?” She says she’s fine, but it is clear she will never trust me again...
...that scorecard of mine seems arbitrary, it might be worth considering that it is no more arbitrary than the concept of merit itself. Even if we agree on the criteria with which to measure, with which to make these decisions, we are still only approximating. And we, as individuals, are the decimals that get rounded off in the process...
...rhythm.” This is Taylor’s favorite phrase. Yet to achieve bomb-proof rhythm, as Taylor explains it, actually requires a contradictory mixed metaphor. As he talks, Taylor’s foot smacks the JCR floor loudly in time to the music. “Mine sound like rifle shots,” he says, sizing up the considerably less audible ammunition Hoelting achieves with her green Converse All-Stars...
...watch the world go by” as we listened to the sweet folk music of the street musicians. I saw the street performers and heard the musicians again as a first-year here, and when their music resonated within me I wondered how this place could ever become mine...