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something than to never get your voice
in.”
The school newspaper, The Harbus,
also dispenses advice, featuring articles
with titles like “How to Think and
Speak Well—On the Spot!,” “Developing
Your Stage Presence,” and “Arrogant
or Simply Confident?”
These imperatives extend beyond the
classroom. After class, most people eat
lunch at the Spangler dining hall,
which one grad describes as “more like
high school than high school.” And
every day, Don wrestles with himself.
Should he go back to his apartment and
recharge over a quiet lunch, as he longs
to do, or join his classmates? Even if he
forces himself to go to Spangler, it’s not
as if the social pressure will end there.
As the day wears on, there will be more
such dilemmas. Attend the late-afternoon
happy hours? Head out for a late,
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