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Before I wrote the second draft of this parting shot, my best friend and I sat down on our common-room floor and had another one of our by-now ritual conversations. It didn’t involve anthropologists. Instead, we talked about the realizations we had come to at Harvard—mostly, that we had grown up and grown to appreciate people and ideas more. That we had changed much since freshman year and that we are, thanks to this place, ready to move on from Harvard but not from the people we talked with here...
...wish I had not procrastinated. I tried giving it up for Lent, but I kept putting it off. Even this parting shot is being dashed between senior week events. If I had started that one paper a little earlier, went to that one class more than half the time, taken that one course pass-fail…then I’d be in a better place. Perhaps now I would have a job and a place to live after graduation. But I don’t want to live anywhere but here. I want to stay at Harvard forever...
Carson said that, in addition to desiring immediate gratification—the “shot of dopamine” that the liar receives from successful deceit—pathological liars are less likely to be dissuaded by the threat of punishment...
...men’s side, freshman Fedor Garin finished eighth in the pole vault after clearing a height of 4.80 meters. Freshman Edward Brucker and co-captain Jack Brady placed 12th and 13th in the shot put, respectively, while Brady followed this performance with an eighth-place mark in the hammer throw of 58.21 meters...
Nash’s family is suing her neighbor for $50 million and intends to sue the state for $150 million, for inability in preventing the attack, according to the Globe. The chimpanzee was shot and killed by police soon after the incident...