Word: tells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hardly ever seen it work out. The best example in my life came when my parents heard about a bunch of 15-year-olds who had talked their older friends with licenses into letting them drive around the local shopping-center parking lot after hours, creating havoc. "Just tell me if you've ever been down there," my mother urged. "It will be worse if I find out from the security guards or other parents." So I fessed up to that heady, behind-the-wheel spin from rows A to N. It's possible things would have been worse...
Having sampled the single life in a brand new city this summer, I unfortunately have to tell you that it isn't nearly as simple outside the ivy walls as it could be here at Harvard. Take, for example, where you live. At Harvard, you live among thousands of people, at least a few of whom must share your interests and be attractive to you. In the "real world," that mystical place where everything seems so perfect, finding someone who shares your passion for the American Revolution or the anatomy of butterflies is rather more difficult than meeting them...
...dining or having coffee passes out from actually being seen in public having a meal and interacting with another human being. Splat! Your date slumps, face-first into soup or another hot liquid, nearly drowns, scalds his or her face and requires paramedics. You've got a story to tell for the rest of your life. Your kids will beg to hear about the time you got to ride in the ambulance in college...
...being alone can be fabulous. Take care of yourself, think about yourself...but loneliness can eventually take its toll. Whom are you going to tell about your brilliant self-revelations? Whom are you going to share dinner with? Whom are you going to wander with in the galleries of the museums you stop by? It can be a little too lonely...
...happy to tell you that there's no developments," said Michael A. Armini, a Radcliffe spokesperson. "I don't have any news...