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People always said that the best parts of Harvard were the wonderful intellectual conversations that you would have. So far, I have yet to have any of these wonderful intellectual conversations, but I take comfort in the knowledge that the people I spend most of my time making cat noises with could, if called upon, discuss Nietzsche intelligently...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Harvard Rules | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...services stopped serving scrod on a regular basis after I sent them a heart-felt letter telling them how much I enjoyed it. Sometimes I think about it and start coughing violently with emotion, usually because I am forgetting to swallow something else that I am eating at the time...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Harvard Rules | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...thing that has puzzled me most in my time here is why most of the toilets lack lids, or whatever you call that thing that covers the seat. I have a private theory that whoever designed Harvard dorm furnishings had strong moral objections to people sitting down, which explains why all the chairs gang up on you whenever you try to lean back, but I don’t know why he would have wanted fecal coliforms all over everything in the restroom. Maybe he had one as a pet and got attached...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Harvard Rules | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...Harvard has taught me one thing, it is that you should always be polite to the people who try to instigate conversations with you at Starbucks, because you will wind up running into them a year later, and they will remember everything you told them the last time about your imaginary sister Eve who ran away to the big city with a luggage salesman...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Harvard Rules | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...During my time at Harvard, President Faust has really reached out to us,” said Sarah A. Harvey ’10, who was commissioned yesterday as a second lieutenant in the Army. “Every cadet and midshipman has appreciated what she has done...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: At ROTC Ceremony, Faust Calls for Strong Relationship With Military | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

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