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...Pananen and Costello represent opposite poles of Alaskan students' experiences at Harvard, there are some things which almost all of them seem to agree upon...
...Pananen and Thompson both hail from America's largest and least settled state--Alaska--where it is dark for as many as 20 hours a day in the winter and where temperatures drop as low as 60 degrees below zero. Pananen and Thompson are not alone at Harvard. They are two of the 13 Alaskans currently enrolled at the College. Migrating from towns such as North Pole and Copper Center, these students travel nearly 4000 miles to come to school. None of the 13 agrees exactly what it means to be an Alaskan at Harvard, but most are in accord...
...same, Costello says she understands Pananen's nostalgia for their home state. "I do miss it," she admits. "It's a great place to live. There are so many misconceptions about what it's like to live there--I wish people knew the state better...
...offset the problem of tuition, Linkous has worked during the summer at her father's photography store in Fairbanks. For his part, Merriner has fished for salmon on the state's southwestern coast and for crabs in the Bering Sea. Pananen plans to fight fires for the state government this summer--a job, he says, that pays well and is hard...
Most of Harvard's Alaskans say they are undecided about their plans for the future, but one of them isn't. Pananen knows he is going back...