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In high school, you at least have to get up at a reasonable hour and show up at places on time. College, on the other hand, gave me the sense that I could complete major assignments at 2 A.M. without suffering any repercussions, along with the erroneous idea that in real life, things started after one in the afternoon.

~Alexandra Petri

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Success is like food caught in your teeth: much more noticeable when it happens to other people. If it happens to you, other people have to take you aside and say something.

~Alexandra Petri

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No matter how successful you are, no matter how good you are at what you do, even if a golden path rolls out in front of your feet your whole life, there will come one particularly bleak Tuesday when you glance over at Facebook and notice that Jen From Down The Hall has just won an Oscar.

~Alexandra Petri

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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.

~Alexandra Petri

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At Harvard, people like to impart the idea that you are a mover and shaker.

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The worst thing that happens to you at college if you fail to get out of bed in time is that you will miss two hours of someone reading scintillating anecdotes about Medieval Ireland. The worst thing that happens to you in life if you fail to get out of bed in time is that you might lose your job as a first responder.

~Alexandra Petri

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At college, everyone's milestones occurred in shared clumps. Everyone studied, caroused, won, lost - simultaneously. Life is not like that.

~Alexandra Petri

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Almost nothing anyone told me about Harvard has been accurate.

~Alexandra Petri

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If you want to be famous because you do something well or badly, be it singing while fat or hitting balls of various shapes and hues, you have to be prepared to divulge. We live in the age of the chronic overshare.

~Alexandra Petri

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The desire for attention has become a primal need along the lines of food, water, and clothing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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