Word: want
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...like to get to know better. So in a way, looking at your Christmas-card list, you can see beyond the intimate circle. Who you send Christmas cards to, probably a good two-thirds if not more go to people you don't know that well, but you still want to acknowledge that they're part of your social convoy...
...deal to make its institutions more competitive.” John P. Gobok ’12, who grew up in the Philippines, said that the economic recession has made it less feasible for students in his native country to study in America. “Asian students still want to come to the U.S., but because of the expense, they’re choosing to stay in Asia,” Gobok said. “It’s not because they want to, it’s because they have to.” Fitzsimmons said that...
...Admissions and the Founding of the Facebook Era,” Greenspan says that the real value of the project was in the writing process. “It was either that or seeing a psychologist,” he says. “I didn’t want to be a nervous wreck for my entire life because of something that happened when I was in college...
...getting into Harvard,” he says. “And then you get there, and it’s a lot of the same shit as the rest of the world. A lot of the same kind of class divisions, and a lot of people who just want to drink beer and go work at investment banks...
...Greenspan, the decision to use only real names–no pseudonyms or composites– was difficult. “There were a lot of my friends who I wanted to include in the book who actually just aren’t in the book at all, because I wanted to write about them and they didn’t want to be tied up in the craziness that is my life,” he says...