Word: guttentagã
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Good Day. That’s what Guttentag means in German and that’s what is embroidered in neat block letters on Lisa Guttentag??s blue L.L. Bean backpack. It’s unclear if it’s an affirmation or a command. But either way, Guttentag is having a good day and wants everyone else to have one, too. She’s not really supposed to be here right now. At least, on June 12, 2000, when her van was hit by a tractor trailer, no one thought she would be here...
Susannah Graves ’03, Guttentag??s friend and first-year roommate, says that while Guttentag recognizes how much she’s changed—reinvented herself, even—there is much of the vintage do-anything first-year that remains. “Everyone changes in college,” Graves says. “It’s just that a big part of what changed her was the accident. She doesn’t take bullshit from anybody and she has always been like that.” Limitations, however, are something...
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