Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Harvard, many of us were big fish in a small pond. However, once on campus, we are quick to realize that we are really just guppies. The passing of time effaces our past successes, and we have to adjust to not always being ‘the best’. While any college experience causes students to reassess and ‘find’ themselves, I’ve discovered that this school can be a pressure cooker if students don’t know how to find success after failure...
...adjust and adapt? Similar to Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief, the adaptive process one goes through when faced with overwhelming loss (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance),Harvard students may pass through five stages in order to be humbled – in a good way – by the Harvard experience...
...Bantams were not in the mood to let the Crimson blemish their nine-game win streak on Saturday. Harvard was not going to let its chance to solidify its ranking as No. 1 in the nation slip away. But in its toughest match yet, the Crimson also had to adjust to a new environment...
...definitely had to adjust to college hockey,” Leblanc said. “Getting used to a new league full of older and stronger guys new league full of older and stronger guys was tough, but I think we’re all really clicking now. We’re definitely working harder...
...hosted her own talk show and has been hounded by film crews desperate to tell her story. She reportedly bought the home where she was held captive to protect it from being torn down, but she lives in an apartment in Vienna where she's still trying to adjust to normal life and come to terms with her past. (See a brief history of Stockholm syndrome...