Word: wildes
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...Viswanathan’s book, now on sale at Harvard Bookstore and the Coop, is called “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life.” It is about an over-achieving Indian girl in her senior year of high school, whose lifelong goal to attend Harvard is derailed when the Dean of Admissions finds out she has no friends and doesn’t know how to have fun. Despite Opal’s impeccable resumé, the dean basically tells her that she’s too nerdy for college...
...housing. But, frankly, why should their opinions really matter? With each matriculating freshman class, I am struck not by the maturity of these 18 year-olds, but by the youthfulness they exhibit. Many enter the gates after living under parents’ roofs and rules, and they promptly go wild. Looking around at my classmates, there are parallels to what Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito saw at Princeton decades ago: “Some very smart people and very privileged people behaving irresponsibly.” Students, the freest creatures on earth, are the only people who could think...
...Beastie Boys—the wild dudes from “Sabotage,” the greatest music video of all time, and frat-boy anthem “You Gotta Fight For Your Right to Party”—are classy activists for a free Tibet, in long-term relationships, and producing progressively less relevant material at a progressively slower clip...
...implication of the end is that all their wild-man behavior was just the actions of confused and talented young men looking for direction, which they have now found...
...games into the young 2006 season, the Harvard baseball team has its first win. Defeats at Florida and the New York Institute of Technology (5-4), where the Crimson (1-5) visited this weekend, had the team searching for relief. Showing itself both wild and hittable, the pitching staff did not receive any—until yesterday afternoon.Together, sophomore Brad Unger and senior Matt Brunnig pitched a three-hit shutout. In his four innings, Brunnig was perfect.“Brunnig was pretty awesome,” said sophomore hurler Shawn Haviland, who struggled on the mound in the series...