Word: academia
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...Those of us who do this work within academia and outside academia have a tendency to think we have it all worked out,” Grant-Thomas said. “It’s good to meet people with equally strong convictions...
...Internet. All the rules and protocols that govern how computers talk to one another and how e-mail is passed around have been handed down from the 1960s and '70s and are riddled with loopholes. Back then the nascent network was the province of the military and academia. If someone even knew what e-mail was, he or she was likely to be friendly...
...assed music, shopaholic mall life and loony peer pressure for the right clothes and attitude. Yet there's a welcome roughness and passion to Thirteen. To see the essentially innocent Tracy taken over by her scheming, psychopathic friend because everyone else--parents, teachers, cliquey friends (another big topic in academia)--is too distracted to see how lost and yearning she has become is inevitably touching...
...Harvard, the unflappable attitude is easy enough for most to cultivate, or at least affect, because even the most sheltered pretend to world-weariness, and because, more charitably, the scope of human experience is fair game under academia. But within this paradoxically insular world of cosmopolitanism, where many spend far too much time in privilege and classrooms and offices, being experienced with this world is often incorrectly conflated with being blas?...
...back and forth. Still, an almost strange and funny sense of purposefulness persists, even if I’m only one page further by the time I arrive. I am beginning to master a tiny piece of knowledge, beginning to become an expert on an obscure little piece of academia, and the freedom of summer has paradoxically given me the drive and self-control to move forward...