Word: forgetable
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...food when we were too stressed to go to the dining hall, parents who said it would be okay if we dropped out right now, and of course advisors who patiently waited for our delayed chapter drafts and then quickly returned them with comments and suggestions. Don't forget to make that mental acknowledgment a verbal...
...easy to forget that newness is uncomfortable. Beyond the classic studies of a liberal-arts university, at the rough unfinished edges of disciplines and fields, there is space for both using and misusing the power that comes from knowing first...
When I was a kid, everybody smoked, not only astronauts and game-show hosts but moms and dads, grandparents and your second-grade teacher. (Who can forget that first glimpse into the smoke-engulfed teachers' lounge?) Smoking was promoted as being cool and grownup. It was what people in the movies did after sex, for instance...
...course, almost all parents, including those who smoke, have lectured kids on the evils of tobacco. But we forget that teenagers think they're bulletproof. Not even ads trumpeting the risks of impotence from smoking have much effect on hormone-crazed 14-year-old boys. Besides, the tobacco industry has subtly and successfully portrayed smoking--in the face of known health dangers and parental disapproval--as defiant and therefore cool...
Fortunately, students have no excuse not to don green garments and party tomorrow night. In the midst of your revelry, however, don't forget what you're really celebrating: the fact that the British finally got fed up with Boston and left. It's something that can bring us colonists and the Irish together...