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...Fish in a Small Pond...
...Fish in a Small Pond...
While its proximity to a neighborhood school may not satisfy those accustomed to the truly rural, the 80-acre Audubon Sanctuary complete with garden, fields, woods and pond makes a welcome escape for days when the mercury tops...
...second "My First Year" piece that I have endeavored to complete. A year ago at this time, as a 20 year-old rising junior, I composed an essay concerning the somewhat popular notion that when one comes to Harvard, he or she becomes a small fish in a big pond, as opposed to high school, when the situation was more akin to the individual existing as a big fish in a small pond...
...cheer surrounding his birthday, there seemed only the vaguest concession to mortality from the former President. When he was studying a landing site for his parachute jump near the Bush presidential library grounds at Texas A&M, he suddenly pointed to a small grove of trees near a pond. "That's where Barbara and I will be buried," he said. But his voice had its usual verve, as if to say that even that would be an adventure...