Word: telling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ready. No one could tell me anything about what school was like. I didn't read these columns when I got the first-year issue of The Crimson, because I was sure I didn't need anything in them...
...boyfriend from hell lived in Kirkland House B-31. The sports editor from hell lived in Lowell B-31. And in Mass. Hall B-31 one of my roommates had a night from hell. But I can't tell you about that...
...lest you think I was (and still am) a lush,let me tell you that I managed to do reasonablywell in all my first-year classes--although no onehanded me a gold star for attendance. Oneclass--contemporary American history with AlanBrinkley--inspired me to read pages ofnon-required reading. Of course, Harvard sentBrinkley away the following year. He spent toomuch time with students and too little writingbooks, or something like that. So much foracademic inspiration. I signed up to be a Govmajor (Big Mistake...
...dramatic was the fact that for a while he had to do them on crutches. A top-notch wrestler and pole vaulter, Mike recently had blown out one of his knees on a bad vault and had stitches in his knee from the surgery. It was easy to tell that Mike, the quintessential athlete, was getting impatient with the healing process, because whenever he had a few drinks, he went jogging, crutches...
...squalor, pure and simple, and Glennhated it. You could tell that by the way herefused to walk on the carpet in his bare feetbecause he was afraid of catching a disease. ButGlenn never let his revulsion of the way we livedaffect the way he dealt with those of us whocaused the mess. Instead, he just got even byplaying his Broadway show tapes after we had allgone to sleep...