Word: worthlessly
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Tension is "much worse than at Harvard, because everybody is gunning to do really well," Elizabeth H. Munnell '73 said. She added that with exams right after Christmas, "Your vacation is totally worthless...
...from the West, succeeds in bring the reader close to an understanding of his literary environment. Rejecting the narcotic apathy in the midst of progress that he considers the downfall of "Our defeated generation...," Qabbani appeals to the young to ignore their parents' example "For we have failed/Are worthless and banal as a melon rind...
Dupuis first came to the team as a freshman, with six seasons of hockey already behind her, only to be blasted off the field by Princeton and just about everybody else. "We were worthless," she says, "until Debi Field started coaching...
...cost the state $1 billion, or half of its annual agricultural output. Since April, less than four inches of rain has fallen in the eastern portion of the state, and, for want of feed and pasturage, cattlemen there have been forced to sell livestock before they became starved and worthless. Says Anderberg: "It's a hell of a deal for me. But it's short-lived-we won't have nothin' next year...
Then there are people who are downright cheery about underemployment. Robin McElheny, a 1975 magna cum laude Radcliffe graduate who describes her undergraduate education as "worthless," works as a housecleaner in Boston and hopes to become a quiltmaker. "I enjoy cleaning houses," she says, "and I meet a lot of people doing it." For some, such as a Wellesley graduate working as a groom at a prep school's stables, there is even a certain blue-collar chic in low level jobs...