Word: undergradate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Siskel went on to tell these eager listeners about how his life was headed along the treacherous path of "The Tube"--"You know, Yale undergrad, Harvard Law, big job in the city and retirement in Westchester by age 40," as he put it. Yet Siskel came to realize the dangers associated with this lifestyle, in particular, the rushing through life-altering events without taking the time to appreciate them. Life as a journalist, and not as a lawyer, was much more to his suiting. The Chicago Tribune quoted him in 1995 as saying, "I still have my enthusiasm...
...story began too early on a Sunday morning, as an unwitting Harvard undergrad staggered from her room into the light. With eyes squinting at the glare she acknowledged her roommate and moved on, then looked up and realized that the blonde person standing in her common room was not her roommate. In fact she had never seen the girl before in her life. "Hi, I'm Maggie, Celeste's friend from home." The poor undergrad searched her memory and found remnants of a conversation with Celeste about a girl who had invited herself for a three-day weekend...
...believe politics is in the streets. I never took a [political science] course as an undergrad," he said. "I'm still a street kid. If you want to cross the line, go ahead. I'm ready...
...conquering the elusive troika of money, power and prestige, Rubin is living the dream of the hyper-ambitious. As the embodiment of what so many at Harvard seem to be striving to emulate, he's the poster boy of the Harvard undergrad. The drive to equal this uber-alum's conquest of the troika has become one of the defining characteristics of undergraduate--especially senior--life at Harvard. Curiously though, this drive is often self-defeating. For the more success we attain, the less-satisfied we feel. Call it the prestige paradox...
...wish there were more classes like that when I was an undergrad," she says. "Health policy has a lot of different meanings for people...