57.David studies in a senior high school. Not wanting to spend much time on the way to school every day, he is now looking forward to renting a room near his school. He also hopes to have a roommate to share the cost together. ...
【题目】For every woman who feels like she's had to scale back her personal ambitions since becoming a mother, gold medal cyclist Kristin Armstrong has a message: Don't give up on your dreams. She retired after winning gold in Beijing to start a family; son Lucas arrived in 2010, but ...
I was trying to find a parking spot at my university. The lot was notoriously crowded but my campus didn't have a lot of options. While searching, I saw a Corvette taking up FOUR prime spots near the front of the lot. After about ten minutes of waiting/looking for a spot, one opene...
I have sometimes thought, after a mass shooting, that no place is safe, that I risk my life when I walk onto campus or into Target or the grocery store, but there’s a part of me that is still buffered from that fear. That is the part of me who grew up in a time before school...
“I am female, and at the time of the incident, I was 19, five feet tall, and about 150 pounds, I was a student, I worked as a waitress, lived off campus with a roommate, paid my own bills and I know how to throw a punch. And this happened in ...
I threw away all the matchless shoes and any other reminders of what had been, cleansed every square inch with disinfectant and burning sage, and posted an ad for a roommate. A nineteen-year-old college student moved in and, almost immediately, so did Yvonne. Yvonne had met someone new ...
Instead of going to class in my Sophomore year, my roommate Woody and I’d go down to Tarleton’s Student Center basement and hustle pool. We were pretty good, not G.O.A.T.s by any means, but good enough to be in the money more often than not. We’d take our winnings down ...
阅读理解 Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer.I always encourage such people, but also explain that there's a big difference between being a writer and writing.In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the lo
The first roommate was in Harlem. My fiance and I had to move very suddenly and he found a listing on Craigslist, for a young woman looking for a roommate (couples were welcome). We responded to the ad and were invited to look at the room in question. She was nice, but a ...
Man, did they have a story to tell about a huge, angry, red-faced man driving all over the neighborhood looking for a group of kids on bikes! It’s been about 30 years and I still laugh at the memory, but I also hold the lesson close to heart about not treating kids like *** ...