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...expectations were more specific. I always assumed that Harvard was a giant edifice made of red bricks and the bones of pilgrims, where my roommate would be named Quentin Compson and would leap off a bridge to his death shortly after meeting me. I was only half-right...
Making that leap isn’t always the easiest thing to do. When I moved out of Cambridge I had no salary, nowhere to live, and no actual job offer. At first I thought I was entitled to something more. I was a good student, from a top college, who had studied politics and was president of the Harvard College Democrats. Like many Harvard students, I was convinced I needed my next few years planned out before graduation day. But my desire to take the surest and most prestigious path was actually limiting my options, because...
...efforts of the Nordic squad’s top four skiers—co-captain Audrey Mangan, Sprague, and freshmen Alena Tofte and Esther Kennedy—allowed the Nordic team to make the leap from the middle to the top in the final classic race of the season...
Fueled by the quartet’s performance, the women’s Nordic team made the leap to a consistent middle-of-the-pack squad, knocking off regional powers such as Middlebury and the University of New Hampshire...
...team effort,” Buesser explained. “I couldn’t have scored all those goals without the team helping out. It was that mental leap where you can’t just sit back anymore—you have to take the game in control...