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...exceptions of first-semester first-years, perhaps, Harvard students of all years tend to think they have a good command of this institution, that their knowledge of the Harvard Experience is relatively complete regardless of the stage of it at which they actually find themselves. Thus a sophomore is overheard explaining to someone how the social scene at Harvard works, or a junior feels she truly understands what the value of writing a senior thesis...
...bases itself on a premise that one should be skeptical of something else. It's simple. All you have to do is sit down in some very large survey class and start talking to a friend, softly enough so that it's clear you don't intend to be overheard but loudly enough so that you know you will be, about how of course the administration likes to tell everyone that housing assignments for first-year blocking groups are completely random, but since it's a known fact that more people are graduating this year from Pforzheimer. Cabot and Currier...
Unfortunately, the couple sitting in front of me missed the Gloria Gainer tribute because they took their young children home after Act I, due, as I overheard, to the show's "inappropriateness." And it is a good thing they did because Act II wasn't getting any cleaner. In "Tea for Three," for example, the third song in Act II and one of the best examples of the show's lewdness, Stella sings these lines while bending over between two members of the cast (pun intended): "I am in a boil and I am ready to steam/Just drop...
...Hilles, "I guess I'm wasting my time and theirs as well." Moments later, a pantsuited woman standing 10 feet from me perked up, walked over and introduced herself as the representative from the firm I was interviewing with. I cringe to think how much of our conversation she overheard. As you can probably guess, I didn't get a second round interview...
...find out about this? A friend overheard those people talking and repeated it to me at 10 p.m. In less than eight hours, my words had traveled through an unknown number of ears and back to me. But I'm not upset...