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...lament the “inconvenience of living in the Quad” based on “the fastidious timing of schedules to match with shuttle times” and the fact that “Quad residents must spend 10 or so minutes traveling every time they want to go from their Houses to the Square or the Yard.” Oh, the humanity! Students at universities with truly far-flung campuses, like Arizona or Michigan, probably wouldn’t mind a 10-minute walk or shuttle ride to class. The same goes for commuter students...
...accordance with the dean’s “first-dollar principle,” the school has redoubled its efforts to spend these restricted funds on core expenditures, before spending money that can be allocated more freely...
Finishing exams is, we at FlyBy imagine, somewhat like giving birth (please don't ask our moms to confirm the validity of this analogy). You carry around the increasing weight of your impending exams/term papers/end of year project, bragging about its current size until you either spend an excruciating night pushing—and pushing, and pushing, and pushing—the thing into existence, or you exhaust yourself for a quick-but-painful three hours of labor...
...think basically that we can’t live through a day without making an impact, that we should spend a bit of time thinking about the consequences of the choices we make each day and realize that if they’re multiplied a billion times you start to see the kind of change that we must have if we care about the world for our future. There’s no point in me trying to kill myself to try to save chimps or forests, or for anybody trying to save anything, if the same old business...
They were going to bring in an eye specialist, a voice said. “Okay,” I mumbled, not opening my eyes. I had slept five hours in the last two days and I was completely ready to spend the night on that UHS exam table, waiting for someone to ride in and diagnose...