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...worked on my resume exceeded the number of hours I studied for my exams. On the eve of my Biology final, I didn't have my usual "arrive at Mem Hall in my underwear and hope nobody notices" nightmare. Instead, I dreamed I was working feverishly on a poster-size resume while dozens of pre-meds chanted my name. (I was still in my underwear, however...
IFOOLED them. I pulled my tacks out of the wall and meticulously filled the holes with little balls of poster gum. The Superintendent didn't catch me. But she caught everyone else...
...other words, if you tack a poster to your wall and make a hole, you are charged not for the repair of the tackhole, but merely for the evil act of using the tack...
That is, you will if you're an unfortunate first-year student. The fact is that the enforcement of the poster-gum standard is incredibly capricious. The students in my dorm are paying for every nick and scratch, while one senior who pasted checkered wall-paper all over her bathroom got off scot-free, just like another senior who says he left his coffee pot on during winter break...
...wavers for a moment, and that is enough to satisfy the state. In Temptation, Havel retells the Faust myth in terms of the ego-driven distortions of truth committed by his compatriots. In the essay The Power of the Powerless, he lambastes an archetypal grocer who places a poster saying WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE in his shopwindow to prove himself orthodox and ensure his comfort. Dissecting the web of hypocrisies and self-deceptions that formed the social fabric of communist life, Havel argues for "living within the truth." He writes, "You do not become a 'dissident' just because...