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While my friends dream about Africa, I look forward to another year of the Core and Harvard Dining Services' bell-ringing beef. My year won't contain leisurely shopping trips through Paris; instead, endless work, sleepless nights and numbing classes await...
...collection of mystery novels. I snuck the works of Chandler, Hammett, and others up to my bedroom and read them under the covers late at night, when I was sure that my parents were asleep. Ellroy's The Black Dahlia, which he calls "a valediction in blood," left me sleepless and staring at the ceiling for weeks, sure that I would come to an immediate and gory end if I so much as closed my eyes...
...Dudden by exposing the doctor's neuroses seems not to fit with the rest of the story. As a student, Dudden might have been described as cold and analytic at best. However, Coe's decision to allow the doctor to become consumed by a desire to live in a sleepless state proceeds in a forced and unconvincing direction. Insinuations that Dudden is little more than a mad scientist whose experiments in the realm of sleep deprivation must be stopped are tiresome and perhaps even inappropriate by the end of the novel; they unnecessarily detract from the strongpresence...
...have been waiting for approximately three months and I am starting to develop a weird neck twitch from the anxiety and the fear. January, February and March have begun to blur into one long, cold waiting period. While I have not yet had sleepless nights in which I stars at my ceiling anxious about my summer, I know that they are coming soon. I am constantly assuring myself not to worry and to stop demonstrating obsessive-compulsive behavior--an internship, any internship will come. My friends no longer bring up the topic of summer plans because I tend to start...
...Sleepless in Chicago...