Word: personal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like me, you are about to meet 1,600 other people who were exactly the same way in high school. No more will you be able to define yourself simply as being a person who is more successful than everybody else. Some people, of course, will try. The first Undergraduate Council elections of the year will remind you of your high school student council--lots of candidates, slogans and earnest campaigning. People you know will plunge into big, hierarchical organizations like the IOP and The Crimson because they desperately need someone to give them a structure for their ambition. (Those...
...think a person with strong academic credentials...in almost any field, really. My own preference would be issues of concern to women," she added. Dunn said she would prefer a candidate who "understands Radcliffe historic mission" and could use that understanding to build the new Institute...
...whose parents have also, at times, expected the impossible of them. These students were first in their high school classes. Their teachers have doted on them. They have learned to get their way, be it through genuine hard work and creativity or via wily tactics such as inventing one-person clubs and listing themselves as president on their resumes...
...college that struck me first, hit me in the face with something I didn't really want to see. Going to school in Massachusetts eight hours away from home and family and friends did not make me a different person. I found this out early in October, from a good teacher if not a famous one: Grays Hall, a Yard dorm. The method of instruction: I fell down the Grays Hall stairs, in front of a well populated Yard that took no notice of the first-year sprawled unceremoniously on the grass...
...angry philosophical debates about libertarianism at 3 a.m. may not come before June, but they will come. So will the e-mails accidentally sent to just the wrong person. So will the GSFHs...