Word: topicalism
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...conflict in Kosovo (perhaps a question President Clinton should be asked at his next briefing on the topic): "What have you dream'd of late of this war's purpose?" ("Cymbeline...
Stiles has carefully sculpted platinum blond hair. He's also ripped. Really, really, ripped. This guy's chest is broader than my current seed of a thesis topic, and he's just itching to bare all. He steps up to the mike...
...even on the topic of my first name yet. Relentlessly misspelled, mispronounced and misgendered, my first name has been an experience. Example 1: A recent job rejection letter addressed to Mr. Sugi Ganeshananthan. (It's hanging over my bed, the "Mr." circled in red.) Example 2: This past pre-frosh weekend, I went to dinner with three friends from high school. We were at Uno's, and the hostess had an abnormal amount of energy. The restaurant was crowded with a mixture of what looked like prefrosh and frosh. It had been a long day and we were hungry. "Four...
...papers early on in your Harvard years in fields that interest you. That is, don't fill up your sophomore schedule with Cores and other random large lecture courses--when thesis time rolls around, all that cocktail-party knowledge will seem more useless than ever. Once you have a topic...
...normal, if not healthy, to minimize your extracurricular commitments, put little effort into other classes and become something of a hermit. But don't forget to take breaks and have fun. In the end, whether you get a magna or magna plus will depend more on how unique your topic is, how good a writer you are and who your readers are than on whether you stayed in that night in February instead of going out to drink or see a movie with your roommates. When the weeks start to roll by and deadline day is in sight...