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Authors Articles by Alex Lengyel '17

Alex Lengyel '17

Alex Lengyel '17
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The young man stared intently at the checker printed board scattered with pieces. A single bead of sweat rolled down his right cheek as his eyes squinted in contemplation of his next move. He slowly raised his right elbow from the hard, wooden table and pinched his Knight using his right index finger and his right thumb. Picking the...
As the bell rings to signify the start of parent teacher conferences, the slender English teacher shoves his round silver framed spectacles back onto his nose, opens the large mahogany door, and invites the middle aged Latino parents into the empty class room. Shy smiles barely show across the parents' faces, and their eyes widen with a frozen look in...
The tall young man fully extends his right arm to the top of the brown pegboard, stabilized by four large brackets to the base of the machine. As he reaches full extension, still shorter than the peg board, the student tenses his right calf, straightens his right ankle by stiffening his toes and rotates on the ball of his...
He steps into the box with a firm and steady stride. Planting his back right foot into the red, perfectly raked dirt as his foot rolls heel to toe, he aggressively rotates on the ball off his foot by twisting his heel in a back-and-forth motion using the overly cramped toes as a pivot point inside a new black Nike cleat. He...

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