Word: staleness
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...students who’ve been breathing in the stale smell of the Widener stacks instead of the fresh April breezes, the Harvard College Women’s Center and the Seneca have got the perfect cure for home-stretch burnout...
...place that looked like it would be bumping (and grinding?!) all night: Lamont Café. I was pretty sure prefrosh didn’t usually get into final clubs, so I played it cool and only talked about my SAT I and never my SAT IIs. I ate a stale raspberry Danish and chilled in the VIP section, by the newspapers. Show them bitches no love...
...After practice, the boys and horses, emitting feathery clouds of steam, are back in the stable. Stale manure is replaced with fresh hay, the horses are denuded. Stinking of the barn’s musk and covered in horsehair, the players are back in Cambridge shortly before midnight...
...Visiting professors are great because they keep things from getting stale. They are in the field and making art and have a perspective that you lose being at Harvard your entire career,” Rojer says. “But at the same time, it lacks stability. Students are doing their theses, and that’s the culmination of your work; a visiting professor just isn’t going to be able to understand it in the same way someone who has been advising you for years will...
Still, leeches aren't pretty. And neither do they smell nice. The odor from the Center's laboratory is like stale meat in a dirty restroom. It can be detected from far away and becomes close to unbearable when approaching the jars full of leeches - all various hues of red and yellow depending on when they were last fed. "Leeches urinate non-stop for three days after they are fed," explains Elena Titova, the head of laboratory production, who has worked at the center for 25 years. "You have to clean their jars very frequently during this time; otherwise they...