Word: psyching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...varsity cheerleaders, 14 strong tonight, do their pregame psych-up at Natalie Rodriguez's house in North Webster. Destiny's Child blares on the CD player, and between trips to the bulging buffet table, two black girls teach the others how to get down to the music. Junior Sarah Budzinski gets a plate of cake smashed in her face in early celebration of her 17th birthday tomorrow. After dinner, Natalie's mom braids their hair, brown and blond alike, into cornrows. "Whenever my mom used to braid my hair," says senior Ann Barnes, "she'd say the more it hurts...
...success on the brain. "I can think of things in life more important than being in the Wall Street Journal," he said, "but I could probably count them on my left hand." It wasn't always this way. An admitted high school "burn-out," this social psych concentrator from Winthrop House says he squandered his first two years at Harvard. After a junior year abroad in London, he returned to tackle his classes with a new vigor. Nonetheless, finding a job still held little interest...
...another's thoughts. And there is tremendous camaraderie. "Let me tell you this about Alan's tennis game," jokes Summers, an occasional opponent on the court. "He is very good [pause] for his age." Says Greenspan, with a broad grin designed to mask what is either sarcasm or a psych job: "Larry is really almost as good as a professional player...
...also provided a good perspective on what psychological studies are like and what kind of things I would be doing if I decided to do a psych concentration," she said...
Others agreed that participating in psych studies felt less like enforced labor and more like a good way to decide whether to pursue a concentration in psychology...