Last weekend, I went to a high school friend’s (Laura’s) going away party. She’s one of those people who got the memo about archaeology people getting to travel to exotic destination and play in the dirt all day, and she’s off to Honduras pretty soon. At the party, I ran into a friend of mine [...]

There aren’t many days in one’s life when one can say, “I was accepted to Harvard today.”  But yesterday was one of those days for me. When waiting to hear back from undergraduate institutions, I used to cross my fingers for the “thick envelope,” the one containing a letter of congratulations and information about financial [...]