Word: wander
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There's a price to be paid for the concierge life: stupidity. Your mind tends to wander and take you with it. You learn something standing in the crowd. I think of the inconvenience of serving on a jury last summer and the hours we spent poring over a case of criminal assault. It's hard work summoning up your best judgment on behalf of the law, and to do the work with that slice-of-St.-Paul bunch of moms and retirees and folks from Cubicleville was a revelation. If I were the accused, I'd want that jury...
...good news is that Zen homilies and pop lyrics aren't all that different. Bless the folks who want to parse every word for reincarnative innuendo, but if you left your inner pothead in a different decade, you can still wander through Brainwashed without feeling like the new guy at Brahman camp. Treat it with the blithe spirit of some of Harrison's other larks, like the Traveling Wilburys or his 1987 cover of Got My Mind Set on You, and you will find yourself having a fine time. Harrison could always write a memorable guitar line, and he does...
Tonight at 2 a.m., when the last Cambridge bars close down and most students are left to wander back to their dorms, 50 students—sponsored by the H-Club—will board a red-eye bus headed to Philadelphia for the Harvard-Penn football game...
Among departments, a key problem with advising is consistency; some students receive high quality, committed faculty members while others receive graduate students who finish their career at Harvard before their advisees do—forcing undergraduates to get a new advisor or to wander without guidance. Other students are nominally assigned an advisor who is responsible for all the concentrators in the House—but as long as someone signs the study cards, students need not even meet their “advisor...
Halloween sucks because all these kids walk around banging on doors, demanding handouts, and acting like they’re entitled to free candy ’cause they’re wearing a cape and a Batman mask. All of a sudden it’s cool to wander the neighborhood begging for food, and if you don’t give them anything, you’re a jerk. Well, that’s crap. I say you kids are the jerks for making me get up every 15 seconds. Any other night, you could call the cops...