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...summer lying around doing nothing, and we’re preparing an 80-page thesis on it. Perhaps we should blame Richard Henry Dana. In 1840, this Harvard student’s Two Years Before the Mast transformed his nightmarish apprenticeship aboard a sailing vessel into an equally nightmarish??but bestselling—memoir. He was a trailblazer of the productive-unproductive summer. The consummate Harvardian, he glimpsed the potential in his seemingly wasted time on ship, taking his diary and converting it to a popular narrative and plea for better shipboard conditions. After this shining example...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Vacation? | 4/21/2008 | See Source »

...being punished appropriately and cosmically. I have lied and exaggerated about my feelings to girls. And while eventually these little deceptions have come to bear in the form of less-than-pleasant endings—including one break-up at a Houston coffeehouse that can only be described as nightmarish??I’ve never been punished for anything. In other words, I’ve never had my heart broken. The one time that I was really betrayed in a relationship, I saw it as a story to tell my best friends and in retrospect the event...

Author: By Kenyon S. Weaver, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: L'Espalier-Worthy | 4/10/2003 | See Source »

David A. Gordon ’02 described his experience with NOC as “nightmarish?? and bemoaned he and his suite mates’ loss of Internet access in the midst of studying for midterms on Sunday...

Author: By Grace Bloodwell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Adams Senior Experiences Loss of Network Connection | 11/1/2001 | See Source »

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