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...choosing what items to approve, “I think of it as a dartboard,” Calixto says. “If it is something related to the mission of [Harvard University], it is at the center...
...conversation took the twists and turns that late night rambles usually do, and was thoroughly unremarkable for most of its duration. After awhile, though, Dartboard and his roommate managed to glean one bit of wisdom, the surprising frequency with which people were summed up with one of two words: good...
...Both Dartboard and his roommate realized that in our descriptions of various souls around campus, just about the worst thing we could say about someone was that they were “a bad person.” Dartboard here states flatly that he’d rather be called a whole host of expletives or insults rather than being labeled simply “a bad person.” The overarching damnation that such a phrase denotes is unmatched by anything else of which Dartboard can think...
...flipside, neither Dartboard nor his roommate were able to think of something more complementary or reassuring than the label of “good person.” While exceedingly simple, something most first-graders would recognize, the phrases sum up a person far better than rambling on about how they are bright, clever, funny, or pleasant...
...bad” ensures that there will no more wondering what exactly it means if someone is “unique” or “interesting.” As a fundamentally straightforward person, and one who places a high value upon clarity, Dartboard cheers this resurgence of simplicity...