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...visible people on campus, the fast-moving Sundquist, who while in high school was recruited by major colleges to compete in the 400-meter event, runs his schedule as smoothly as he used to circle a track.With his list of appointments written on a folded index card in his pocket, he walks the Yard with the apparent intention of speaking to everyone in sight. And more often than not, his targets are receptive. Sundquist’s speech is uniquely disarming: a mélange of strikingly understated, philosophy-tinged awareness, with a streak of beach-style casual that puts...
There’s a big difference between the things you know happened and the things you remember. Ask any college student who has ever woken up on a windowsill in an unknown common room with a court summons for public urination in his pants pocket and the word “douchebag” written in pink permanent marker across his forehead.I can divide the events of my life into those two distinct categories. I know that I won a math bee in fifth grade. I remember hitting the first and only home run of my Little League career...
...home doing bookwork. Markell drove to the store in five minutes and was shown a receipt for the Glock, which, the agents informed him, had killed many of those who had died at Virginia Tech that morning. The receipt, the agents said, had been in one of Cho's pockets, perhaps the pocket of his backpack, and had been discovered when his corpse was searched...
...barrel, on the slide and on the bottom of the frame," Markell said. "That's quite a bit of work for anybody to do. Why anybody would go to that much trouble, because it had to take a long time, and then keep the receipt in his pocket...
...wore purple velvet overalls to school. Not exactly a time I like to remember with fond nostalgia considering that I was also wearing a white eye-patch that clipped to my glasses. There are benefits to embracing this new aesthetic. Now, you can put your keys in your pocket without showing the outline of them to everyone you have ever known. Also, now, if you feel like you have fat thighs one day you can hide them in swaths of fabric normally big enough to hide small elephants. These are all important facts. As Harvard students, however, we are intimately...