Word: thought
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...some advice. You are going to change a lot at Harvard, and most of those changes will happen your first year here. Some of them will be conscious decisions on your part, and you should jump on those opportunities. If you've always wanted to write poetry but never thought it would be taken seriously, do it now. If you wanted to play intramural softball but the nerds at your school (I'm assuming you were one) were laughed off the diamond, this is your chance. If you never felt comfortable asserting your ethnicity, your religion (or lack thereof...
...thought about the situation logically, I could have figured out that with a birthday in early September, I was fated to leave my parents on or about my birthday. But my first year at Harvard was never about logical expectations. And perhaps that was what made it the year...
...This was a long, well thought-out process,"she added...
...were talking about it for at least five years, every night," she said. "This was a long, well thought-out process...
...with which you should concern yourself. My advice to you is to seek another dimension of life at Harvard: other people. Unlike the course guide and the extracurricular fair, after orientation week you will never be presented with a chance to meet people and choose friends. I guess I thought there would be another chance, and so hung out only with people I knew from back home at the beginning of my first year. I'll meet people in lectures. Sorry in Sanders. Sections, then. Maybe, but during your first year you're still too busy actually doing the reading...