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...things I could complain about during my time at college, the good far outweighs the bad. Ultimately, if I had known these things earlier, would I have been happier? Maybe. But for now I’m going to enjoy the last few days when being compelled to wake up at 9 a.m. seems like a grave injustice. And when the e-mail comes announcing that it’s time to sign up for a post.Harvard.edu e-mail address, I’ll be ready for it. * I was placed in Mather, and I wouldn’t want...
...movements are modeled after the classical Divertimento. During the compositional process, Schubert suffered from a severe, and eventually terminal, case of syphilis; shortly after the completion of the Octet he wrote to a friend: “Every night when I go to sleep I hope not to wake again, and every morning brings with it the memory of yesterday’s misery.” None of his personal pain, however, manifests itself in the stunningly lyrical and hopeful Octet, which is reminiscent of Beethoven’s famous Septet. This brilliant—and lengthy?...
...times, FM stays up at night worrying. Is the Fifteen Hottest issue objectifying? Are we perpetuating dangerous stereotypes about beauty? Are we falsely putting people we hardly know on a faulty pedestal? Then we take an Ambien, wake up the next morning, order an egg white omelette from the grill, and decide we were being silly. After all, this is Harvard, and there isn’t much physical beauty to go around, so when we find it, we celebrate it. And by celebrate, we mean take lots of photos of it and print it in the magazine and post...
...deserve it—we play Division I-AA football, in a conference without a postseason that does not give out athletic scholarships—but the sprinkles of Fitzpatrick and Dawson here and there make us (read: me) yearn for personal excitement on draft morning, when we can wake up and track the draft status of one of our own, welcoming him back to campus in the following days, his rights belonging to an NFL team, his life changed, and his wallet on its way to becoming a lot fatter...
Leaving college is never easy, but I suspect that only some of the fears of the senior class revolve around not having your food cooked for you in the dining hall or learning to wake up at 7 a.m. For many Harvard graduates, we will stop being students, a primary identity, one we have clung to since we were four...