Word: interact
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extreme sense of isolation characterized my night. I recognized people on that general "this person is in my section/ this person rode the shuttle with me/ this person knows my best friend's boyfriend's cousin" level, but none of them were the people with whom I choose to interact daily as friends or colleagues. I could sense people watching me, viewing me as an interloper in their protected little social world. While I clearly understood, even on entering the club, that I would never be a part of this group, I had absolutely no idea of how alone...
...event or lecture. I could either ignore their anxieties as a form of racism and choose to identify myself even more strongly with the black community. Or I could listen to their concerns and attempt to explain BSA activities as well as how I perceive the BSA should interact with the larger Harvard community. At that point I would try to harass them to attend a BSA sponsored discussion...
Often the people that we interact with on one level are completely different than those that we interact with on another. The challenge should be to draw on the knowledge that we gain from our different environments in our interactions with various types of people. In this way the exclusionary quality that is often so coupled with group identity can be eliminated. I hope to bring the patience and sense of self-control I've learned by tutoring in Mission Hill to my never-ending BSA and U.C. meetings...
...officials say many mid-career students are happy to provide their money and experience in exchange for a chance to interact with each other and to take home a Harvard "degree" of sorts--in reality a certificate of attendance...
...Administration will be determined by a complex debate among these zones. We are watching multidimensional chess to try to figure the king's chances of survival. If Clinton's presidency can be saved, it will happen because two very different dynamics--forgiveness and, surprisingly, popular indifference--will interact...