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Though he grew comfortable in the community, Mark always wished his entrance into the scene had been eased by a peer...
...becoming as commonplace as “sucks,” they aren’t (except if you’re a Yalie). By blowing this small issue out of proportion, BGLTSA seems to signal that it will be just as aggressive in the future. This unnecessarily vehement peer pressure will promote unneeded self-censorship—relatively benign in this case, perhaps, but potentially a huge problem in an academic community based on free and open discourse, not on allowing groups of students to enforce their perception of what is politically correct on everyone else just by yelling...
Fitzpatrick’s teammate, Robert B. Balkema ’06, says he switched from engineering sciences to economics to save time and with his eye on his future income. He also describes a tie between football and economics beyond convenience and peer pressure...
...were kicking around these ideas on how to organize a peer-to-peer network and these papers started coming out that were exploring similar ideas,” Wilken said. “It’s interesting that our work was going on parallel to other companies...
Despite my reservations, I “marched” to the footbridge: peer pressure is a powerful force. Trying to defend the moral high ground, though, I stood at a little distance from the crowd once we got to the bridge. Also, I wasn’t wearing a T-shirt and would have spoiled the pictures. They stood there in their matching T-shirts, clustered together to have a picture taken, and then broke apart again. They dangled a banner off the footbridge at the boats chuffing by on the Charles. They chanted a little more. And then?...