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...seniors like me, time that previously seemed monotonous and endless has become punctuated by "lasts": the last shopping period I will every scurry through, the last time I will return to Harvard after winter or spring break, the last time I will wait in line to buy sourcebooks. (Okay, so it's not all that...
...asked one professor what he thought of a particular favorite of mine, a real "baggy monster" of a book, weighing in at a nice 700 or so pages. "I admire its ambition," the professor said. He thought that maybe it was a bit windy as well, but that was okay by me. Graduate students warned me against worthless projects, suitable for swelling libraries only. But lately, since university presses have started to look at marketability of scholarly studies in addition to their scholarly quality, it is no easy task to get a book published...
...Okay, so that last part hasn't happened yet. But don't you feel pity and fear for our cathartic heroine? Remember, Harvard students, if you're here more than 50 percent of the year, it could happen...
...Okay, so maybe it was our respective nicotine and running-shoe habits, coupled with some massive thesis-incurred library fines, that forced us to be money conscious...but we couldn't resist mentioning the Senior Gift on April Fool...
...would prove to be self-absorbed and irrelevant to my life--basically said to us, "Look, this is college. I know you are going to drink, but it's against the rules. So, here's the deal: as long as I don't know about it, it's okay. Just don't make me have to enforce the rules." At the time I didn't think much of it. But in retrospect, that comment, coming from someone I then took to be a respectable authority figure, led me to assume that everyone would be drinking and that...