It is three in the morning on a Tuesday, and I’m walking toward table eighteen, the one I call home. I pass the waiters, give a brief nod to the
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and take my seat. I
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the “usual,” water and peanut butter pie. Yes, I’m at an all-night diner.
I start to take out my books,
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full well that I will be
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on the same page of Socrates that I’ve been on for the better part of the semester. Of course, it’s
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—for my group that is. I wait for the empty chairs around me to be
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. Just as the Muzak songs start to repeat themselves, Shana and Jenny walk in. I am
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with the usual big hugs and smiles.
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, the diner stops being a twenty-for-hour restaurant with bad service and becomes my place—my home
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the prisonlike dorm room. For the next couple of hours, we will joke about people we know, talk about books, reflect on the meaning of life, quote movies and
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new private jokes. Table number eighteen is our
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home.
During my senior year of college, I started going to the diner for a temporary escape from a dorm room that felt like it was closing in on me. Not to 小题12:
the phones, the stereo and the computer. How could anyone seriously
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to have good study habits? Some friends of mine told me about the place; they went there to study, and they really liked it.
So I tried it. It felt remarkably freeing. I start going there every night (except weekends, of course), and, believe me it was not because the pies were
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great either. Maybe it would force me to open my books and my
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would improve. Right? Well….
But that’s not the
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. I mean, anyone who has gone to college knows that it’s not only about forcing yourself to wake up at 7:45 A.M. (after you had gone to sleep two hours earlier) to listen to a professor spoon-feeding you information
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the significance of the Battle of Hastings. It is
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about finding a little haven where you can create what will be the most important thing in your life—yourself. At a school of thirty-five thousand people, I found a small place that was as
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to me as my Social Security number.
Through laughter, tears, learning, growing and the
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free ice cream, we found a sanctuary. A place where we could be ourselves.
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| 小题22: | | A．make | B．take | C．bring | D．order |
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| 小题23: | | A．remembering | B．knowing | C．deciding | D．learning |
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| 小题24: | | A．stuck | B．focused . | C．fixed | D．turned |
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| 小题25: | | A．certain | B．early | C．late | D．clear |
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| 小题26: | | A．washed | B．cleaned | C．filled | D．covered |
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| 小题27: | | A．armed | B．satisfied | C．occupied | D．greeted |
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| 小题28: | | A．Finally | B．Suddenly | C．Actually | D．Particularly |
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| 小题29: | | A．away from | B．similar to | C．apart from | D．close to |
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| 小题30: | | A．create | B．play | C．write | D．hear |
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| 小题31: | | A．inner | B．outer | C．warmer | D．smaller |
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| 小题32: | | A．answer | B．talk | C．mention | D．mend |
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| 小题33: | | A．choose | B．determine | C．pretend | D．expect |
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| 小题34: | | A．pretty | B．that | C．too | D．rather |
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| 小题35: | | A．health | B．friendship | C．conditions | D．grades |
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| 小题36: | | A．place | B．benefit | C．point | D．view |
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| 小题37: | | A．relate | B．requiring | C．reflecting | D．regarding |
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| 小题38: | | A．also | B．still | C． more | D．even |
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| 小题39: | | A．available | B．beneficial | C．familiar | D．encouraging |
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| 小题40: | | A．special | B．occasional | C．unusual | D．natural |
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