Word: toweritis
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...Harvard Stadium, this silver plastic structure, dubbed “the bubble” by its devotees, encloses the stadium’s turf and is part of a general plan to improve the crumbling football stadium. Unfortunately for the those used to the brick charm of the Ivory Tower, the bubble is sadly lacking in aesthetic. But no worries—the jocks don’t care about looks when it comes to their stadiums. What really matters for the soccer, lacrosse, and rugby teams (among others) is that inside, the bubble is all business. After braving...
...Register with up to 14 friends and camp out at volunteer center Camp Hope to spend a week making a difference. One week at Camp Hope: $100 Flights from Boston to New Orleans: $266 www.studenttravel.com, www.kayak.com Viva Las Vegas! Feeling lucky? Let your inner gambler loose at the Stratosphere Tower Hotel in Las Vegas. For $578, fly roundtrip from Boston and spend 5 nights on the strip. Score some liquid courage sipping cocktails on the 107th floor, or binge away the pain of loss at one of the 13 restaurants. www.studentcity.com
...this. In between our tutorials, just about everyone wanted to get outside, as often and for as long as possible. The biggest thrill by far: on Saturday night, the whole group trooped up a metal spiral staircase, then up two ladders and out onto the balcony of the observatory tower, where many of the weather instruments are located. The temperature at that point was --16, and the winds were at about 60 m.p.h., gusting to nearly...
...lasting friendships, or simply to indulge a whim, extracurricular pursuits are an escape from academics, a sphere free from the demands of professors and the pressures of a transcript grade, a sphere in which one can learn self-reliance and life skills that cannot be taught in the ivory tower...
...emerge from our classes confident that we thoroughly understand the world. But every now and then, something happens that pops the Harvard bubble, and reminds us that book-learning is not the same as experience. It is a chilling realization—no one likes to see the ivory tower stained crimson...