Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Latin Oration, Quentin Chu '99, told students to embrace the "trivial delights and daily vignettes" of everyday life...
...weird when I was not getting along with adults, or was infatuated with a boy I knew I didn't really like. Fears of not accomplishing anything as an adult, dying without leaving a mark and never finding love or happiness became more normal, but also more trivial for me, because I had the privilege of life. The passion Anne had in her life and her art injected my life with these same elements as well. Sensuality, love, anger, sadness and joy became more alive to me in my own development and self-assessment...
...time (if you don't turn it in on time!) Don't do laundry! Don't hold the door for the guy behind you! Be rude! Leave the dining hall trays piled with the half-eaten food outside your door! Don't make eye contact! You are NOT trivial like they are! Because you are the CRUX! The LYNCHPIN that holds the universe together! You are a HARVARD student! And no person anywhere EVER has done anything approaching the vital importance of whatever you are doing...
...time (if you don't turn it in on time!) Don't do laundry! Don't hold the door for the guy behind you! Be rude! Leave the dining hall trays piled with the half-eaten food outside your door! Don't make eye contact! You are NOT trivial like they are! Because you are the CRUX! The LYNCHPIN that holds the universe together! You are a HARVARD student! And no person anywhere EVER has done anything approaching the vital importance of whatever you are doing...
...after a while, I kind of did find their warped sense of community appealing. Not the part where they showed each other snapshots they took of upcoming Yoda Pepsi cans, but the part where they played Trivial Pursuit on the sidewalk, wrote "Fan of the Day" stories about each other for the website and held a dating-game contest. It was like a freshman dorm at a college where somebody in admissions misplaced the women's applications...