Word: rachel
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...didn’t know about beer pong, or funnels, or Everclear, choosing instead to spend our time at awkward dances and single-sex sleepovers. But while we were crowding around the punch bowl in the school gym and playing video games in our basements, 15-year-old Rachel E. Porter was stuck watching drunken friends throw up all over themselves. She describes a particularly “traumatic” incident at the annual Dunster House goat roast, when a friend vomited right in front of her after drinking too much...
...Rachel, a freshman in high school, is the youngest daughter of the Dunster House Masters, IBM Professor of Business and Government Robert B. Porter and Anne R. Porter. Unlike most of her peers, who are tucked safely away in private apartments or houses, Rachel lives in the midst of college students, and she’s seen her share of “people a little too out of control.” Despite the shock, Rachel still has her sights set on coming to Harvard...
Although she’s only a freshman, Rachel has already begun to worry about crafting a perfect Harvard application. With three older siblings who went here, parents who are house masters, a dad who’s a professor, and a bedroom right over the Dunster dining hall, it would be hard to avoid getting stressed out by the college admissions process. For her, the pressure started in first grade, when her sister applied. Living in Dunster doesn’t always make having stellar grades and extracurriculars easy, she says, since “being at Dunster...
...There is] a lot of pressure on me to do well,” Rachel says. “People are always asking me ‘Will you go to Harvard...
...Jewish comic (Maron), the thoughtful black (Mark Riley), the BBC-sounding British woman (Sue Endicott). 9 A.M. to noon, "Unfiltered": the woman comic (Lizz Winstead, who was also he network's program director), the elder statesman of black rap (Chuck D.), the Jewish lesbian with some radio experience (Rachel Maddow). Noon to 3, "The O'Franken Factor": Franken and NPR refugee Catherine Lanpher. 3 to 7 P.M.: Randi Rhodes ("I'm Jewish, I'm from Brooklyn"), who had built strong ratings in South Florida. 7 to 8 P.M., "So What Else Is News?": a magazine-show-style survey hosted...