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Because undergraduates have become accustomed to holding the door for others, it seems rude not to allow another student access, according to Joshua G. McIntosh, associate dean of the College for student life...
...dinner party last month, a biomedical engineer asked me a rude question. He was not trying to be rude. He was drunk. Informed that I am an English professor, he responded, "Why?" He explained that his mission in life is to save lives. Mine is to say clever things about dead writers. Prodded by his wife’s grimace, he backtracked a bit and reassured me that Shakespeare is "obviously important." Praising Shakespeare is how the world apologizes for its lack of interest in literature. Those of us who have devoted our lives to literature are dogged by this...
Let’s think long-term, folks. There’s no need to cut someone in line at the Café, snub somebody of a seat, or be generally rude to your peers. Everybody is going through a rough patch, and you don’t want Reading Period to destroy your reputation for semesters to come. Buck up! It’ll be over soon...
...enlistment). He seems to have stowed any anger or resentment he may have had; his devotion to the mission in Senjaray seems absolute. "We're down to the last few months of our deployment - and that's a dangerous time," Ellis told me, sitting in his office, a rude plywood cabin at Combat Outpost Senjaray. "The natural tendency is to get careless and defensive. To keep them safe, I need these guys to stay focused and on top of the mission...
...type those above three sentences. The average employer could (and probably does, for those who still do this) staff that little email out to their current intern or secretary, who can easily send it en masse to however many applicants need to be notified. Therefore, it is just plain rude to not acknowledge an applicant’s desire for, and the often-considerable effort they put into, asking...