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Your best pick-up line: Do you have a name or should I call you mine...
...Fortunately, it's not illegal yet to think of dastardly things, as long as you don't do them. But a friend of mine who's a crime writer said that we share the same interests as serial killers. We're interested in the law, and crime, and we're not going to back away from looking at a crime-scene photo, or things like that. We're always the person at the front asking, 'Hey, what would happen if the killer did this?' We're always trying to figure out those clues...
...large enough to hold pallets of paper towels. He asked me if I would be willing to take his shopping list if I went to Costco the following weekend. I said, "Sure," though I knew I wouldn't go back. I had heard a rumor that a friend of mine had ordered a Honda hybrid from a dealer (a waiting list for Hondas, in Montana?), and I decided to give him my list, since he could now drive to Bozeman all he wanted. I had formed my own conservation plan by then: keep my truck, but keep it parked...
...time to get off the soapbox. A friend of mine, upon hearing that another friend had received an offer from an investment bank, mused this gem: “$60,000, eh? I guess that’s the price a soul is going for these days.” And he was right. Enjoy your college life to the fullest, and realize that these four years are so unlike any other four in your life that you’d best “invest” in them to get a good “return...
...term advisor wasn’t really a part of the UCLA vocabulary, I am quite happy with a concentration advisor and an Allston Burr Senior Tutor— not to mention the 15 other tutors in the House there to offer help. A friend of mine once complained that picking classes himself was too difficult and that there should be someone there to tell him what to do. After almost choking to death from laughter, I thought to myself that someone who can’t pick classes probably shouldn’t be going to Harvard...