Word: nervousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time of serious decay in America. The fuel shortage has dropped the United States into the second division of world powers, border wars are flaring among the states, and "radical youth" has swung to the right to begin a guerilla war against the blacks who, having attained the nervous prosperity of the middle class, have taken over the military and the FBI. It's all in good fun, really--although Halberstam's vision of America has an underlying serious tone, his tongue seems at times to be straining through his cheek--but for anyone who ever chafed against the outrageous...
They arrive on campus nervous but excited. An upperclassman shows them to their dorms. Stumbling across the quad, maps under their noses, they grope their way to classrooms in modern buildings. They listen attentively as professors talk about opportunity. At night they gather in a big dining hall. A typical college orientation? Not quite. The participants are middle-aged?parents being prepped on what college holds for their children...
...England's Cambridge University. At his side is a mechanical page turner that allows him to read without calling for assistance. Stephen Hawking has been confined to a wheelchair for eight years, the victim of a type of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a rare, wasting disease of the nervous system and muscles. He cannot raise his head without great effort. He speaks only in a slurred monotone comprehensible to just a few intimates. Yet, at age 36, in spite of his heart-rending handicaps, Hawking is widely regarded as one of the premier scientific theorists of the 20th century, perhaps...
...first week, blissful ignorance and complete openness make for the best approach. It's probably not a bad idea; there's no better time, ever, to meet people here, but the forced socialization, as it were, tends to create weird, hyper situations. There's a log of nervous energy floating around during Freshman Week, as everyone gets used to roommates, Cambridge, and the toal freedom of college life. Approach #1 is recommended for people who are either unafraid or too socially inept to know better, and requirs a high tolerance for embarrassment...
...everyone in the Class of 1982 can join in the fun. Freshman Week, like death, taxes, and papers, is one of those things that you just can't avoid. So you might as well make the best of it. Out advice to you it to relax, be open, not nervous (you're here, so you must be as good as everyone else, right?), and don't do anything you don't want to do. You may love the week, and then again you may hate it--in fact, most people do, because the nervous-energy level that occurs when...