Word: readjusting
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During the first week of the semester, when class schedules readjust and student organizations choose new leaders, some of our "extras" might change. But chances are good that our old friends--the Unit Test Grader, The Crimson's Reader Representative, the Gilbert & Sullivan Girl, the Random Law Student--will still be around. (They usually are.) The next time you see your "extras," pay them their due. Don't say hello, of course, since that would be way too direct. Instead, throw a glance at them, raise your eyebrows and wink. If they don't read the newspaper, they'll just...
Both men said that in order to bring peace and prosperity to less-developed nations the United States must readjust its priorities...
...feeling of being left out by the lottery did not end on that day. The entire spring was hard, because I had to readjust my thinking about what Harvard meant. As a first-year, I thought being a Harvard student meant living along the river, watching the rowers on the Charles, throwing frisbees on the MAC Quad on a spring day. Before I traveled to Currier for a welcome dinner on that day, I had been to the Quad once, by accident. We had to walk so far to get there, I thought it was off-campus...
...common worry is that it will be difficult to readjust to college life after returning to Harvard...
...that moment, it all seemed so simple: we just needed to readjust our admissions policy to account for the severe and socially irresponsible deficiency of impulsive and excitable human beings in the Harvard-Radcliffe community. A little affirmative action, so to speak--to be maintained just so long as representation remained unbalanced--and we'd be all set. Harvard would become the novelty-seeking party scene it always had the potential...