Word: randomly
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...instance, when did things become so random here at Harvard? Since the Great Housing Lottery Debate, this seems to have become a significant word in almost every student's vocabulary. But "random" has more to do with entropy than with diversity and housing choices...
...example: someone calls on the phone and doesn't leave a message. Your roommate screams, "That was so random. Some random guy just called and didn't leave a message. How random...
...person calls your room and asks for you, it obviously isn't a wrong number. So it isn't random. It is just unexplainable. So is the unexplainable random? I think that only my "Space, Time and Motion" section leader--who spent an entire year trying to convince me that the universe is completely random in an orderly way--would buy that argument...
ANOTHER strange--pardon me, random--system of terminology at Harvard is the ever-growing "romantic encounter" slang. In a true melting-pot method, every student has brought a way of referring to the process of seduction from his or her high school. In a true Harvard semiotic (and pathetic) argument, the number of signifiers far outstrips the mystical signified object. (In other words, we have a lot of words for it, but it doesn't happen much...
...knows, perhaps they really did listen in on a genuine, brilliant intellectual converstaion. That would be completely random...