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CHICAGO—By the time I finish working this summer, I will have spent almost 12,000 minutes traveling to and from my job. When I tell people that I commute an hour and a half each way, every day, I get a variety of responses. The most common is outright horror. “Oh my God,” they say, “Why would you do that to yourself?” which is a bit disconcerting, since it would seem more appropriate if I had just declared that I was going to spend...
...from a sinking ship—who wouldn’t want to pay less to live a life of cultured luxury?I’m in Buenos Aires to study literature and history for six months, but folks, even just two weeks into my voluntary expatriation, I can tell you that the PR is nothing more than a show, replete with all the authenticity of a cheesy tourist trap; this picture of Buenos Aires is like laying down $60 for a greasy dinner and an overwrought tango performance—it’s simply not the real thing...
...extremist reporter from the Basque Country, which he declared to be its own country, though Madrid would say otherwise. I sighed. I might have been able to escape Catalán, but Spain was a step ahead of me with its four distinct languages. It is simply impossible to tell who is a “Spaniard” and who is not, revealing their whole modus operandi for integration was wrong from the outset. Steven A. McDonald ’07, a Crimson magazine editor, is a biology concentrator in Currier House. In Spain, he learned that both Catal?...
...says, is a type of hypothesis-driven research; the subjects may tell experimenters about a tendency towards motion sickness, for example, and scientists can then look at a possible correlation in that individual’s genome...
...They separate for ten months at a time and then meet again and so they have stories to tell; they become natural narrators, sitting together under a tree, smelling of dirt and sunscreen, comparing what being 8 or 12 or 16 means in Canton, or Fox Chapel, or Bronxville. But then in another violation of the school-year space-time continuum, my rising sixth grader can have as her best summer friend the neighbor across the street, who hikes and kayaks and became a grandmother this year. The sixth graders don't play with the seventh graders at school...