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...can’t quite forget, as my parents sometimes remind me, that academics are a pretty important part of going to college. That when you crunch the numbers, we pay something like $300 for every hour of lecture. That we go to school to learn things from people who are smarter than we are, and those people are often professors. So I’d like to tell you about what I learned in class, and what I learned in my concentration, specifically...
...week into school, in the ninth grade homeroom, my chorus teacher said, "A plane has hit one of the Twin Towers." She cried. My classmates and I stood there, tried to understand. I walked home after school, right down Madison Avenue. There were no cars in the street—no taxis, even. The sky was blue and brilliant, but thick with smoke. There was dust, too, on sidewalks, and sheets of paper in gutters...
...school where the athletes are only marginally stronger and faster than the math nerds, whose hourly spin-moves in and out of Cabot Science Library would come in handy for the coaches across the river, sometimes it’s tough to engage sports fans. With the bleachers mostly empty at all but the most infamous of our rivalry matchups, nobody’s getting paper cuts frantically flipping to the sports section...
...that is exactly what makes sports here so special. On occasions when Harvard resembles a big-name sports school, students momentarily achieve a level of confidence, and even a level of intoxication, that we long for during all-nighters in the library...
After watching Harvard hockey since the sixth grade, Dempsey’s dream came true when she was recruited to play for the team out of high school...