Word: complainer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...your common room (or maybe that's just my common room). We Harvard students live in a tourist attraction with movie stars and geniuses; we're recognized on all continents as the crme of the brulee, the syrup on the pancakes of greatness. Yet most of us complain like vegans at a barbecue cook...
Scientists for many years refused to believe it: Students who, in high school, worked like Harvard was Salvation with sweatshirts couldn't possibly complain once they got there (except, ahem, about the Senior Gift). Lately, though, researchers have admitted it does happen, "But it's like doing Buns of Steel for four years and then sticking your head up your finely-tuned...
...reminded that their work could never be as good as the thesis of Henry A. Kissinger '50. His was 350 pages long, written in his own blood and "interpreted" by a troupe of dancing lizards he trained himself. Could you top that? Not likely. And so we stress and complain like mad. Sometimes, to see the glum, hopeless looks across this campus, you'd think the North Face factory had burned down...
...synapses--are formed on branchlike structures called dendrites. In a normal, healthy person, these can gradually shrink over time, slowing the process of recalling information and leading to those familiar lapses called "senior moments." Memory gridlock is bothersome, but, says Johns Hopkins neurologist Barry Gordon, "what most people complain about is not that serious at all. They're probably not going to get Alzheimer's; they just care more about forgetfulness as they get older...
...head by a demonstrator who was furious because a federal judge had ruled that the group could meet on campus. The ensuing melee involved about 50 people and lasted about half an hour, halting traffic. On Friday students both for and against the group staged a walkout. Some kids complain that El Modena's reputation is suffering and that they are being bullied for coming from "the gay school"; other classmates call such fears "immature." Parents fearful that the alliance will promote a "destructive lifestyle" are pressing administrators to find ways to shut it down, and the school district continues...