Millennials don't go to rallies.
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.
Forced to confront a reptile or an international financial crisis, I'll take the reptile every time.
It turns out that in order to think well, knowledge helps.
My goal is to be weirder than everybody else and hope that no one stops me. So far, no one has.
As long as I'm writing stuff and people are reading it, I'll be happy.
Almost nothing anyone told me about Harvard has been accurate.
All children, except two, grow up Peter Pan and Donald Trump Jr.
The problem with technology, as with fashion, is that it's impossible to be 'in' forever.
In general, sincerity is awkward.
By isolating ourselves from those with whose opinions we disagree, we lose the ability to defend our beliefs.
Once you start worrying, it's hard to stop.
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.
You do not get gold stars for cleaning your toilet. In actual life, there is a depressing lack of stickers.
Good laughs melt out of memory pretty quickly.
Harvard pulsates with life and thought of all kinds, and religion should not be left out of its ongoing discussions.
Hi, my name is Alexandra, and I'm a netaholic.
History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long.
I am a millennial. Destruction is all I know. I no longer care what I wipe from the face of the Earth.
I can be serious for an hour; then I have to go lie down.
I know from personal experience that it is extremely difficult to read while you work out, especially on a Stairmaster.
I love Gene Weingarten's feature writing with the passion of a thousand suns.
I swear like a sailor, assuming the sailor in question died in 1800 and was really square.
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.
I think, when you're doing a column and blogging every day, you get familiar with the sound of your own voice.
If awkward has an antithesis, it is probably Barack Obama.
In society at large, nerds are law-abiding, caring, fundamentally good folk who keep the wheels of civilization grinding.
It is possible to assemble a narrative for yourself, brokenly, on social media, only seeing what you want to look at.
