Word: normalized
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Every Harvard student should probably take a minute now and then to remember that this is not normal; that we live in a bubble of special treatment that encompasses most of the country's good colleges and an always shockingly small percentage of its actual citizens. Final club members should take a lot of minutes, whenever possible, to enforce this reality check. One of the most unnerving aspects of the clubs is their potential for loss of perspective. It is so frighteningly easy to lose sight of the absurdity of a bunch of 20-year-old guys renting out Boston...
There are the new habits you've picked up at college that, although completely commonplace in a university setting, may seem a little strange when taken in the context of normal home life. Take sleeping patterns, for instance. In my mind, pulling an all-nighter to pack the night before leaving for break seems like a reasonable thing to do. Equally reasonable is the 17 hours of continuous recovery sleep I need during that first day back home. My mother, of course, sees this extended rest as a clear indication that I have mono and insists that...
...wasn't earnest. He was normal. Earnest is put on him in contradistinction to normal. In fact, he was extremely normal," Somerby says...
...younger sister is obligated to ask every Passover, why on this night? On all other nights, life is normal. Last Friday night, Harvard raised the 1999 AWCHA national championship banner before the opening face-off, reliving the greatest sports moment I have ever witnessed in person. Exactly two minutes into overtime, the Big Green skaters were mobbing junior winger Jen Wiehn behind the Harvard net--directly under the brand-new banner...
...those prosperity leaves behind; McCain of courage and the forces of evil at work in the "City of Satan." Bush, all lightness of being, struggles to be viewed as serious enough for the job; McCain, all coiled conviction, is so intense he has to struggle to be seen as normal. Both want to make over the Republican Party: one says he wants to give it a heart; the other says he wants to give it a conscience. Put them together, and it's easy to think you're looking at the ticket right...