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...advice worth giving in 100 words or less: Go drinking with a professor. Take a class with Jennifer Roberts. Change your concentration. See a movie in Boston. Sneak McDonald’s into the theater. Get spiked cider on the Daedalus roof deck. Go club-hopping in the Alley. Read FM. Wear your retainer. Make art. Attend Eliot Fête. Write a thesis. Go sake bombing at Takemura. Throw someone a surprise party. Watch Lady Gaga in concert. Quit a student organization. Pass out in a pizza parlor. Invent new slang. Smile a lot. Laugh at yourself. Keep...
...placed in an essay on a specific subject very well might mean something to the grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...
...still have two finals. [And how much time do you have left?] This [paper] is due tomorrow, but I've been working on it for four or five days. [Gestures to two foot high stack of books.] I tend to overdo checking out books. Obviously. I haven't read all of these, I promise...
Move those piles of books you have yet to read for your research paper off of your desk and onto the floor, stacking neatly and evenly so that a platform is created (take extra books from the surrounding shelves if needed). Step up with one leg and down with the other, switching your leading leg after every 10. Repeat for a count of 40. Note: for an added boost, leave whatever embarrassing pop music you’ve been blaring for the past 10 hours on and step to the beat. (A word of caution, however, do not jerk your...
...clue who you are. You still haven’t turned your part of the study guide you’re writing with your friends. You haven’t cracked a book open since February. Whatever your problem, your gchat status is probably going to read “HALP...