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Whenever I walk into Nochs, I say hello to the picture of Elizabeth Hancock ’01, Miss Massachusetts 1998. It’s always been a dream of mine to have my picture on the wall of Nochs...
...most popular tourist spot in the valley is an incongruous architectural folly known as Scottys Castle. It's named after Walter Scott, a flamboyant prospector and veteran of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, who conned a millionaire Chicago insurance executive named Albert Johnson into grubstaking a worthless mine. Johnson may have been snookered, but he was soon won over by the beauty and restorative qualities of the valley; the dry heat and clean air worked wonders with his asthma. In the late 1920s Johnson built a $2 million Spanish Colonial "vacation" hacienda with a lovely Gothic music room, handmade...
...People are afraid of having their genetic code sequenced and put on the internet, like mine is,” he added...
...senior dressed like a male high school debater. Her prize: a box of “dirty” fortune cookies that comes in a takeout container bearing a picture of a grinning, slanty-eyed coolie bent in a deep bow. She passes the fortunes around the table. Mine: “Tight buns drive me nuts...
Altough I imagine few Harvard students’ career searches have been quite as harrowing as mine has been (and I happen to believe that grocery bagging isn’t even a career, strictly speaking), in this uncertain economy concern about postgraduate plans seems to be nearly universal. Dining hall conversations revolve around summer internships; house résume workshops are thronged with anxious would-be investment bankers. We half-expect—and many of our parents fully expect—that we will find lucrative employment upon graduation, but the plum jobs that seemed...