Word: odd
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...sumé that read much like that of many an English concentrator and budding journalist that came before. Internships at publishing houses and magazine corporations, articles penned for an odd collection of campus publications, the cherished (if inactive) title of Crimson editor. I had planted myself firmly on a road well paved with Harvard grads of the past and was about to veer off-track due to a momentary decision in the hazy afterglow of a ham and cheese sandwich...
...have forged ahead, however, talked to restaurateurs in what must be the hundreds, and now press closer (hopefully, someday, maybe) to securing a job for the now too-near future, my confidence in my own strange road is budding. It is odd, but exciting. A new twist. Refreshing. Kind of like a ham and cheese wrap-roll-up-sandwich on your last day in Barcelona...
...definitive source of what’s to come, it seems odd that Madonna would choose to follow her followers. Why would she hire the people that everyone hires? Mariah, Gwen, Nelly, Britney, J. Lo and even Ashlee turned to these men to help them find a new sound. Madonna, however—after the massively successful disco redux “Confessions on a Dancefloor”—didn’t need to hire the most obvious and dependable people in the music industry to produce her new album...
Although she is probably one of the most well-versed scholars of film studies at Harvard, Rachel E. Whitaker ’08 started off her college career on the crew team. This fact might seem odd for a woman of considerable power within the arts scene at Harvard. As president of the Cinematic, Whitaker helped Harvard’s only film-centric publication grow into a thriving organization. As president of the Signet, an exclusive arts and letters society and 138-year-old Harvard institution, Whitaker helped shape the tone of Harvard’s artistic community...
...students. Feeney’s emerging interest in creative writing led him to volunteer before the opening of 826 Valencia, the program’s first writing center, in Feeney’s hometown of San Francisco. He had no experience with tutoring, so the program administrators assigned him odd jobs such as filling giant buckets with lard to help prepare the “pirate supply store” in the center’s lobby, a fully-functioning storefront that sells everything from glass eyes to message bottles. In addition to his volunteer work, Feeney became...