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...what are kids doing to suck up? "We receive a dozen roses any number of times," Fitzsimmons says. Other gifts delivered to Byerly Hall include cakes, date and nut bread, carrot cakes and once even a chocolate Veritas shield. One eager senior, who apparently had not mastered the art of subtlety, sent a set of pencils with her name on it along with a picture proclaiming "admit me," just as a presidential candidate might...
...takes the cake as the biggest suck-up to ever apply (At least in Fitzsimmons' memory)? One student in the early to mid-70s sent close to 100 letters of recommendation, including one from his orthodontist, who assured the admissions office that everything was okay now, and the applicant now had a wonderful smile. "He showed up at a recruiting session and at the office," Fitzsimmons says. "During the interview, he literally stopped the interviewer and made him listen to a tape of his music," he adds. He played the cello...
Luckily for them, they quickly discover that Zeke's homemade drugs (consisting mostly of water-absorbing caffeine pills) can suck all the life out of these extremely hydrophilic aliens. This leads to a hilarious yet gripping scene in which the teens must take turns snorting the drug to prove they are not possessed by the aliens...
...take the crunch-time of exams as a blessing in disguise and amend her behavior to minimize procrastination and hit that unopened Core textbook. It will be difficult; old habits (especially ones with the short-term thrill that procrastination possesses) die hard. But if sufficiently motivated, the procrastinator can suck it up and take the plunge this reading period (all those exams and papers will drive an unproductive soul to desperate measures) and go up against the mother of GW haunts: Cabot library...
...only the pestilence were limited to classes and dining. But no. The leeches suck our blood right out of our veins. We all know who they are: those pesky roommates' boyfriends and girlfriends who show up in their underwear at three in the morning, sleep in our rooms, brush their teeth in our sinks, even shower in our bathrooms (and don't even think they aren't using our shampoo). We at Dartboard urge all upstanding Harvard men and women: Do not tolerate this breach of community! Gong them out the door, back to their real rooms, where they belong...