Word: relaxing
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...serious, who are taking 1,001 classes, saving babies, and being so concerned with the real world already, that it’s hard for people to just step back and laugh at themselves,” Okusanya complains. “To find a girlfriend who will relax and not take things so seriously and kind of be happy with the way things are and not stress you out is a difficult task...
Robert Bell, an architect based in Washington, says the metamorphosis of the kitchen also relates directly to our ability to afford leisure and space. "Over the years, the kitchen has been influenced by places like the beach house, where people go to play and relax, that have always used the big-room design," says Bell. "People say, 'I like that,' and so they just brought it into their own homes...
...aesthetic doesn't suffer, says Fuller. "Because of improvements, inventive ideas, setting appliances into cabinetry, we can integrate all these activities into one continuing, flowing space that merges through to the kitchen." The disappearance of interior walls leaves you wondering just what's holding the house up (relax--new building materials have taken up the slack), but it's part of a bigger design trend to bring what is inevitably called a good "flow" to the house. It's all about how these satellite areas connect to one another and the rest of the floor plan...
...exclusive ranks. Let’s destroy this canard once and for all: You do not need to work nearly as hard once you’re here as you did to get in. The swollen envelope that came during senior year of high school was an invitation to relax for four plus years en route to Commencement. Moreover, the work you put in during high school, be it in Newton, Nebraska or Namibia, already made you worthy of that Harvard degree, regardless of the hours spent cramming in Cambridge...
Administrators seem to have identified an important problem within the Harvardian psyche. After busting a gut to get here, students are clueless about how to relax and enjoy the fruits of their successes. How to rectify it, though, is another challenge altogether. Lewis’ extremely small-scale suggestions to that end are limited to not creating “more yardsticks”—such as having grade point averages calculated to three decimal places. Yet, by so doing, he rightly acknowledges that decisions about priorities while at college can only be made by individual students...