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...This is how I started, so it's no big deal to get into this stuff," he said. "I'm so glad to be the guy holding the pot and not getting arrested...
...week, 7:30 to 9 in the mornings. Usually, I got up at 6, caught a ride or the bus to MIT by 7, returned to campus after 9 and continued with a normal day like everybody else." After dealing with that hectic schedule for three years, Porges was glad to get some extra shuteye this year. She exudes, "I managed to have no morning classes though for my senior spring, so I can finally have a true college life. " Every Monday midshipmen attend battalion labs, two-hour lectures dealing with varying topics including courtesies, sexual harassment and visiting veterans...
...thing that stands out, of course, the staggering, brilliant feat of his life, was this consistency - creating a funny, interesting set of characters that we were still glad to see next to our cornflakes, even after 50 years. All of Schulz's would-be successors flamed out. Berke Breathed was brilliant in "Bloom County" for a while, then retreated from the strip after an accident and could never recapture the magic with his next try, "Outland." "Calvin and Hobbes," surely the postmodern offspring of Lucy and Charlie Brown, delighted (Schulz himself was a fan) until Bill Waterson...
...College. The extremely troubling part is the instant reaction of some to bring in skin color and racism. Must we really be so petty? This is not a vast right-wing conspiracy or the work of a prejudiced Harvard plot. Not everything is about race. I was glad to see that issues of skin color never came up in Burton's election, so why should they come up in his fall...
Does the pain, at the very least, lead to meaningful gain? What is the nature of our relief when we look back upon a semester, or a year? When the semester is over, do we acknowledge and appreciate the significance of all we have learned, or are we simply glad to be done...