I disagree with Steven Hoffmann’s belief that fetuses’ “lives” are more important than women’s lives.
It’s been a trend throughout college that women I know – my mom, my grandmom, work colleagues, my roommate’s mom, my friends – forward me e-mails.
As a Writing Center tutor, a writing TA and someone who spent over five hours last weekend helping a panicky boyfriend revise his personal statement for a National Science Foundation research fellowship, it dawned on me: it is the Personal Statement Season.
Do I really need a sandwich bag to walk between 10 and 20 feet to my chair where I will promptly open and discard said bag? Can I competently carry a bagless sandwich accident-free for 10 to 20, maybe even 30 feet? I concluded yes. So now, when I visit Subway, I ask to have my sandwich bag-free.
Now that Emory has declared war on Wash. U., I feel that I must do whatever is necessary to uphold the honor and reputation of my beloved Alma Mater, even if that means waging war against my own family. My little brother, Nick, is a freshman at Emory University. Why would I do this? Because I fart in Emory’s general direction.
I’m not sure how I feel about the living wage. I know this though: when I decided to come to this university, I came because of the people, because everyone here is very kind and understanding. I caught the first hint of this in the admissions process. Almost every Ivy League school I toured, when giving advice on application materials warned: “Don’t make the mistake of using the same essay for every school that you apply to and forgetting to substitute the correct name of our school in the ‘And that’s why I want to attend _______’ line.
According to the ResLife posting policy: “No sexist or discriminatory materials allowed.” Unfortunately, this policy is not being followed. I don’t want to set out in this article to lambaste specific groups because I feel that many groups at Wash U are guilty of sexist and discriminatory advertising.
Last year, one of my friends, then a sophomore, got to register as a junior. One of my other friends, also a sophomore, registered as a sophomore. The former obtained all her first-choice classes, the latter, none of her first-choice classes. Both of these women are excellent students, and both won comparable amounts of merit-based scholarship upon being accepted at Wash U.
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