Odds and Ends

Father: Forget the PhD, why not start a bakery?

I'll take that as a compliment on my cheesecake.


(on the Humility Council t-shirts*)

Doc Poppy's Husband: That must be funny to you Harvard people, huh?"

I'll take that as a compliment on our great senses of humor.


(Louise, on slogans for our department)

"We rock... except at making small talk."

(and our faculty)

"One is like your second mother. The rest are socially awkward."

I'll take that as all I've known of academia. It was true at Riley House. And it's still true in Kresge.