College Quote by Alexandra Petri

“At college, everyone's milestones occurred in shared clumps. Everyone studied, caroused, won, lost - simultaneously. Life is not like that.”

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They will wrest 'dull words' from my cold dead hands.

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Standup comedy was my weird hobby. I would drag my poor parents out to the only open mics that were in coffee shops instead…

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You can be brilliant in some ways and despicable in others. You can be a clean, upright, moral individual in your private life who…

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Almost nothing anyone told me about Harvard has been accurate.

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Success is like food caught in your teeth: much more noticeable when it happens to other people. If it happens to you, other people…

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I majored in extracurriculars, honestly. I joined the Harvard Stand Up Comedy Society, which is a ragtag band of misfits. I wrote for 'On…

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Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves.

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Bills ought to be passed with deliberation by committees. Change should be achieved in a bipartisan manner. Incrementally, day by day, we should reach…

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Although no one explicitly wants a president who could have a reliable fall back career in stand-up comedy, everyone shudders at the thought of…

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George Washington didn't have to make us laugh; he just had to establish precedents and avoid chopping down more cherry trees than he could…

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At Harvard, people like to impart the idea that you are a mover and shaker.

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It's easier to find the joke in something when you think, 'This - this is ridiculous.'

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Children should finish school and even go to college if they can.

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In college we didn't pass block the way they do in the pros - they played the I-formation at Wisconsin.

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Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

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