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...lists her favorite aspects of Harvard as "excellence, intensity, Fall and Spring." She's equally succinct in naming her least favorite aspect: "Winter...
...villanelle again? Two lines that alternate and repeat, then come together at the end and mean something. A villanelle is supposed to be elegiac. What's elegiac again? Concupiscent ducks fly in a crazy syntax over powerboats throbbing in the canal. A mole slinks back to his underworld kennel. Succinct, admirable outcast. I paddle down the stream of unconsciousness. I used to look forward to summer...
...work by the speakers at the ceremony, having previously declared that her clothes "are not art" and carry "no message." She forbade her clothing to be anything more than an image, and her own acceptance speech was (due to language constraints) none too expressive, sweet but overly succinct: "It makes me happy to receive this award." The purpose behind her work, other than to be different, thus proves elusive, and Rowe's instruction on design art mediation was only mildly illuminating. Perhaps my authoritarian neighbor could have shed some light. I found myself regretting the pretzels...
Navin's strength in the face of his illness was amazing. It couldn't have been easy to study so diligently--he graduated summa cum laude in Social Studies and was named a Rhodes Scholar-while fighting a terminal illness. As a friend wrote me in a succinct yet apt tribute on Wednesday, "Navin worked hard...
...took me a while, but I finally decided that for me the pain just wasn't worth it. I started looking for ways that would make my academic life here tolerable. I divided and conquered material through study groups. I discovered the succinct summaries available in bookstores (better known as Cliffs Notes). I mastered the art of skimming and learned how to gauge what my TFs and professors wanted. For the first time since coming to Harvard, I was able to devote more time to material that I found interesting...