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...believed that education was not a process of acquiring new knowledge, but of the soul remembering and recollecting the Good that it once knew. The task of education was, as he put it, to give the soul “the right surrounding” of love to re-approach the Good. The House system has have the potential to provide the surrounding in which the soul can flourish at Harvard, and I will always be grateful for the memories with which it has provided and armed mine...
...Some of the attrition is due to the nature of science itself. For me, the joy of science in high school was its rigorous approach to knowledge, its entertaining parlor tricks, and a few spectacular teachers. At Harvard, I learned that science has less to do with classroom stink bombs and more to do with performing tedious lab work, deciphering tedious journal articles, and pouring out dozens of lines of tedious algebra. The basics are difficult to learn. Even the smallest headway in research requires enormous personal dedication. And, of course, the field is inherently cumulative, so advanced study necessitates...
Nonetheless, we at HSPH share the vision of this multidisciplinary approach and would look forward to many points of linkage across the University: to the Medical School and hospitals on clinical trials and epidemiologic study and infectious diseases; to the FAS in collaborations in statistics, economics, government, and regional studies; with the Kennedy and Business schools in global health; to the School of Education on childhood development and health; and with the Law School in our joint Public Health Law program...
...have some states moving forward and some restricting progress—it is really not conducive to a seamless approach to research,” Casey says...
...same is true for extracurricular activities. After initially being involved in more organizations than I could handle, I realized that a high-school-style approach just wouldn’t cut it. If nothing else, my liver simply wouldn’t be able to withstand all of the social events these clubs held...