Word: ucla
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...favorite autumn pastime. Which highlight is No. 1? When he juked an Oregon defender while wearing one shoe? When he stopped on a dime, watched a Fresno State defender fly by and darted across the field for a 50-yd. touchdown? Perhaps his quantum leap over a UCLA cornerback, legs split high in the air à la Michael Jordan, finished with a flip into the end zone like a Hollywood stuntman? Bush, downplaying his theatrics, won't pick a favorite. "It's just like playing football with your friends out in the street," he told TIME...
...athletic spirit (or lack thereof): I’m thankful that not liking to watch college sports does not make me an outcast, and that only going into the stadium for the last 10 minutes of the Harvard-Yale game was perfectly acceptable. If I had stayed at UCLA, I’d probably already be standing in line to get seats for the USC game this Saturday, and I’d probably have to learn enough about football to understand what was happening when I actually sat and watched the game instead of passing the time tailgating outside...
...Diversity: I’m thankful that my friends at Harvard come from all over the world rather than only a small corner of it (95 percent of students at UCLA are from California). It’s nice to actually recognize the difference between accents, considering that at UCLA the only accents I heard were those of my professors. It’s especially nice to hear stories of where my friends grew up that, for once, don’t sound even remotely similar to my own (or to an episode of the OC for that matter...
...education: I’m thankful that at Harvard I can graduate in four years without any trouble (average graduation time at UCLA is four and a quarter years, and it often takes longer), that I almost always get the classes I want, that my professors are top of their fields and genuinely passionate about the material, and that I am challenged, surprised, and stimulated by my classes every day. I’d put money on the inability to find most of these qualities at almost any other university...
...dining hall staff: Though the food at Harvard may not be as good (UCLA served different food in each of its dining halls, had a wood-brick oven to bake pizza in, and a dessert selection that would challenge any Parisian bakery), I am thankful for those who cook and serve our meals each day. I think the only other people who have ever cared so much about making me happy were my parents, and they probably felt obligated to because I’m related by blood...