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...early for a college student to be awake. And it was far to early to be lost while driving the streets of Chelsea. Keep in mind, this was not fashionable Chelsea in Manhattan with its brasseries and trendy art galleries, but Chelsea, Mass.—a bleak section of Boston, just north of Logan Airport, facing Somerville across the Mystic River...
Imagine a lazy weekend night winding down, as so many do at Harvard, with a trip to the local video store. Imagine popping an obscure find from the romantic comedy section into the VCR and snuggling with another Ivy-League loser as the opening credits roll. Imagine watching a hip but responsible woman from the Carter era walk sunnily across a plaza and into the first lines of dialogue, where she wittily banters with a young man about—the snake lemma...
...University in this Cambridge, instead, can offer us only weedy looking patches, worn at the edges by overworked students cutting corners to get to section on time. Those corners, and the dirt in between them, are not the symbol of power and beauty they could be. Think of the symbolism exuding from thriving, refulgent green spaces: vigour, growth, abundance, fertility! The image projected currently around the abodes of the new students is of life taking root only with trouble, of impeded growth on barren soil. Hardly encouraging for an impressionable class of first-years...
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...students are just so incredible,” he says. “You just never have a better peer group than that. I have had a lot of great experiences since college, met a lot of interesting, important people. But the smoking section in the Dunster dining hall on a Tuesday night was the best place...