Word: nevers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actual admissions oversights go, Lewis says the office doesn't have any problems. "We may be wrong, but we're never careless," Lewis maintains. "All I know is we admit people and they show up and live in dorms and are your roommates. Most people pay tuition. It works out okay," she jokes. However, sometimes Harvard will rescind an offer if something drastic happens post-decision. The most famous case was Gina Grant, whose admission offer was revoked in 1995 after the office learned of her 1991 manslaughter conviction for killing her abusive mother. Most instances are less lurid--plummeting...
...Some students, unconvinced of their past achievements, may not agree with Lewis' view that the staff at 8 Garden St. never makes mistakes. But Lewis says that's ultimately the students' call. "If you're a Harvard student, you would know better than we do if we've made any mistakes," she says...
...SPAD: None of my roommates really made me that mad. I'd never had roommates before. It was an interesting experience, like, living with people...
...SPAD: OK. I think the nerdiest thing about me is that I always seem to end up running around. People always stop me in our yard and ask me where I'm running. But I'm never really going anywhere. I'm going to class or something, but for no particular reason am I running. The least nerdy thing is probably...I think...I'm trying to think what 'least nerdy' would be exactly...
...feel to him that only a gifted science student could possess. Most importantly, however, he rocks back and forth with his torso, constantly gyrating when searching for an answer and sometimes even stops the tape to ease the pressure that seems to come out of nowhere. His answers are never immediate, but when they are uttered they are shot out at rapid fire, so fast the answers are sometimes confusing. To get a sense of Dreyfus' platform check http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dreyfus. And if you want a better feel of Dreyfus, check out his personal web-page at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dreyfus/index2.html...