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...Sure, freshmen could go out and buy a Finale cake to enjoy with a small group of friends. But the UC isn’t in the business of providing scrumptious study breaks—proctors are. The UC party grants are designed to create some semblance of a normal college social life, something that freshman generally cannot provide without violating College regulations. In addition, it should come as little surprise that freshman parties are attended almost exclusively by, well, freshmen. Furthermore, the targeted party fund increases will only provide yet another opportunity for freshmen to remain isolated from...
...close friends. Promoting the frequently portrayed image of the Harvard student as overstressed, self-involved, and unable to naturally cultivate relationships does not set a good example for either group: Those who fall prey to personal stress and procrastination or those of us who have discovered how to lead normal lives while doing (nearly) as much work as everyone else. MICHAEL C. PADGETT ’07 Cambridge, Mass. January...
...Normal. We're in a community of 2,000 people. They probably don't even like...
...were primarily read by the audience you imagine watching Lifetime Original Movies—lonely, middle-aged women with cellulite and cats. But last week, when I spotted “Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul” nestled between two Tolstoys on the bookshelf of a seemingly normal friend, it hit me.At some point in recent years, self-help books have become mainstream. In fact, a large proportion of students at Harvard have presumably read at least one, since the syllabus for Psychology 1504: Positive Psychology included “The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem?...
...Adi”). As the family—of which each member, with the notable exception of Adolf, is portrayed with remarkable clarity and complexity—works and grows, the strong-headed eldest son rebels, the motherly sister matures, and young Adi lives a relatively normal life only occasionally punctuated by hints of his menace. Oh, and they raise a lot of bees.How did this result in one of the most evil men in history? I still don’t know, because Mailer’s answer is that it didn’t—it didn?...