Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Some students develop relationships with proctors or non-resident advisers that are of enormous value to them throughout their Harvard years and beyond. Others tell tragic tales of advisers who become part of their problems rather than helping solve them. Nearly everyone has a story to tell...
However, as I asked myself (and everybody who listened), what about better than okay? What about hoping the door to your suite's already unlocked-- not because you forgot your key--but because you'd genuinely love to see your roommates and tell them about your day, hear about theirs, chill in the common room in a silence that feels good, comfortable, relaxing. Remembering what that felt like, I decided that I deserve a new chance. I can float. I've found my decision meant a lot of myths to debunk...
...stories I could tell. Stories I never knew till I asked: why people transferred, grew apart, don't speak--every conceivable reason for wanting to start over with new folks. Start listening and suddenly you're struggling to find anyone who hasn't ever considered moving...
...that may or may not spoil your chances of coming back alive. Those of us working in this field aren't rushing to the patent office with time-machine blueprints. But we are interested in knowing whether time machines are possible, even in principle, because answering that question will tell us where the boundaries of physics lie and provide clues to how the universe works...
...life that we know, however wondrous in extent and variety, all proceeds--or so our best inferences tell us--from one single experiment. The biochemical features underlying this amazing variety and the coherent fossil record of 3.5 billion years (implying a single branching tree of earthly life with a common trunk) indicate that every living thing on Earth, from the tiniest bacterium on the ocean floor to the highest albatross that ever flew in the sky, arose as the magnificently diversified evolutionary outcome of one single experiment performed by nature, one origin of life in the early history...