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...remember every second of it. When my hands left that rail - and my legs curled over - as soon as I left the bridge, I thought, "I don't want to die." It's a four-second fall, and in those four seconds I said, "God, please save me." I had no idea that you could jump off the Golden Gate Bridge and live. That was foreign to me. You see these websites, they say, "If you want to kill yourself, go to the Golden Gate Bridge." I'm trying to shut them down...
...dark, very scary. Then I said, "Wait a minute - I'm alive, I can move. [But] I couldn't move my legs. I swam with my arms to surface. I got to the surface, took a big gasp of air, and begged God to save me. I couldn't yell, I couldn't scream for help. The current was so strong...
...that moment, I said, "I jumped, I'm in the water, no one is going to save me, I might as well just let go." But I went down in the water, and I hated that drowning feeling. I thought, "No, I can't drown, that's just horrible, I'm alive." Then I thought, "This is a dream, it cannot be happening." I actually pinched my right cheek to check...
...their 10 paid vacation days to lessen the impact of the unpaid weeks during intercession and spring break. “If I miss a week’s pay I can’t pay my bills,” said Nicolson. “I save money out of my weekly pay check while I’m working at Harvard so that I can get by over the summer.” Currently, outside contractors hire temporary workers for summer jobs. Unless Harvard puts pressure on the contractors, they have no reason to hire term-time dining...
...capacity to think beyond the status quo, to abandon image-consciousness in favor of making a meaningful political choice. I would never advocate remaining silent on issues of great importance, and there are certainly some opinions we are not meant to entertain, but shouldn’t we save our voices for unjust laws, not displeasing commencement speakers...