Word: thingness
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...This is the only thing that we have that’s a little bit geared towards more academically-oriented students,” said School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80, referring to the ISPs...
...generation-defining term. Awkward has no real antonym—the words that come closest, from “cool” to “pleasant” all fall somehow short. Indeed, in our generation’s frenzied opposition to awkwardness, we have become the very thing we so desperately sought to avoid. Instead of risking mispronouncing our roommate’s name, we spend three years coming up with inventive terms of endearment. Rather than call someone, we send text messages that take up three whole screens...
...Where I grew up, politics is the only thing that ever did anything for anyone I knew,” Flores says...
...effects could be erroneous. Using the same statistical methods as the happiness study, his study found that characteristics like acne, headaches, and height are contagious among adolescents, indicating that the methods used in the happiness study can produce spurious results. “There’s no such thing as a social contagion in height,” Fletcher said. Fletcher and his co-author, B. Cohen-Cole ’95, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, suggested that the happiness study could be biased because happy people are often friends and that their good...
...Because, as we all know, we have fun, we have our friendship, but it’s always about one thing: winning...