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Awkward is a state of being.
No one has debates on Twitter.
Millennials don't go to rallies.
In general, sincerity is awkward.
A picture can hide as much as it reveals.
Good laughs melt out of memory pretty quickly.
Hi, my name is Alexandra, and I'm a netaholic.
MS Paint was my creative outlet for many years.
Bad things happen, and you can only be so prepared.
Journalists run many risks. It comes with the profession.
If awkward has an antithesis, it is probably Barack Obama.
It turns out that in order to think well, knowledge helps.
Almost nothing anyone told me about Harvard has been accurate.
All children, except two, grow up: Peter Pan and Donald Trump Jr.
As long as I'm writing stuff and people are reading it, I'll be happy.
People talk to pass the time, share information, and entertain each other.
At Harvard, people like to impart the idea that you are a mover and shaker.
I love Gene Weingarten's feature writing with the passion of a thousand suns.
President Obama deserves our unalloyed praise for hastening Osama bin Laden's demise.
The problem with technology, as with fashion, is that it's impossible to be 'in' forever.
I swear like a sailor, assuming the sailor in question died in 1800 and was really square.
Anything you loved, however intensely, becomes mortifying the moment you cease to love it.
History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long.
The desire for attention has become a primal need along the lines of food, water, and clothing.
Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves.
My goal is to be weirder than everybody else and hope that no one stops me. So far, no one has.
Forced to confront a reptile or an international financial crisis, I'll take the reptile every time.
I am a millennial. Destruction is all I know. I no longer care what I wipe from the face of the Earth.
Some information is important, and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other.
Once, as my New Year's Resolution, I telephoned the Extenze Male Enhancement hotline every day for a month.
You do not get gold stars for cleaning your toilet. In actual life, there is a depressing lack of stickers.
When police are shutting down cameras, it is a sign that they know the truth is not going to be kind to them.
By isolating ourselves from those with whose opinions we disagree, we lose the ability to defend our beliefs.
I think, when you're doing a column and blogging every day, you get familiar with the sound of your own voice.
All the young voters who flocked to Obama in droves grew up watching 'The Daily Show' and the 'Colbert Report.'
Harvard pulsates with life and thought of all kinds, and religion should not be left out of its ongoing discussions.
YouTube is covered in comments that would be better expressed - and better spelled - via a simple thumbs-up or down.
As long as cantankerous old people have existed, they have complained that kids nowadays don't seem to know anything.
It is possible to assemble a narrative for yourself, brokenly, on social media, only seeing what you want to look at.
I know from personal experience that it is extremely difficult to read while you work out, especially on a Stairmaster.
Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.
In society at large, nerds are law-abiding, caring, fundamentally good folk who keep the wheels of civilization grinding.
A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but I think if the picture is made in MS Paint, the going rate might be slightly less.
I tend to process stuff by making jokes about it. It's something that makes me annoying to be around in times of real crisis.
The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted.
Yale students want to impress you with what they're doing. Harvard students want to impress you with how cool they look while doing it.
One of the things I try to do - and I always regret when I'm not doing it - is I try to read as much as possible as I'm consuming news.
If you're doing what you do because you love it, you have room to be happy for others. And that's a lot of fun, when you get down to it.
At college, everyone's milestones occurred in shared clumps. Everyone studied, caroused, won, lost - simultaneously. Life is not like that.
Worst case scenario, nothing I do has any value or purpose, but if I can make someone laugh, I'm at least as useful as a piece of quiche would be.