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Divorce is one “special circumstance” frequently presented to the financial aid committee. Illness is certainly another. Jessica Matthews ’04, a Winthrop House resident, covers over $32,000 of her expenses through loans each year, partly due to her mother??s breast cancer. “Although the cancer is currently in remission, my mother has no sick days left from when she was recovering. It is incredibly hard for her to miss work. This causes stress when she needs to go get check-ups. She also had to have another...
...faith that a school with an $18 billion endowment would come through with some financial aid.” Like Lash, receiving her award statement brought little comfort. “My family’s finances look much better on paper; even with the mitigating circumstances of my mother??s cancer and other issues, the financial aid committee gave us nothing. I can’t even describe how upset we all were when I got that letter. There weren’t even words. And this year, my dad called and he wrote letters and provided...
...conformity of lawn and lane; Michael Cuesta, director of indie fave L.I.E., finds beauty in it, intercutting sequences of whip-sharp candor with brief, glistening fantasy. In his critically-lauded rendering of an adolescent boy’s knotted relationship with an older man in the wake of his mother??s death, Cuesta is gentle, but spares his characters nothing...
...regarded John as a perverted family secret. Throughout elementary school, I lied about the number of siblings I had. I didn’t want to talk about him—about how he was responsible, at least I thought, for my father never being home and for my mother??s constant crying. I didn’t want people to know that I regularly helped my mother clean up his “accidents.” By the fifth grade, I developed a fear that my school bus would arrive home at the same time John?...
...becomes to his new friend. And so, for Bobby, the summer, his magical Atlantis, passes with a series of startling revelations and changes in perception. In this period of growth, he begins to become aware—aware of his feelings for his friend Carol (Mika Boorem), of his mother??s greed and later, of regret, of his father’s true character, of the evils around him and of the uncanny gift possessed by his mysterious friend. Bobby must gradually come to terms with love, loss and truth as he grows out of this Atlantis...