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...book, now on sale at Harvard Bookstore and the Coop, is called “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life.” It is about an over-achieving Indian girl in her senior year of high school, whose lifelong goal to attend Harvard is derailed when the Dean of Admissions finds out she has no friends and doesn’t know how to have fun. Despite Opal’s impeccable resumé, the dean basically tells her that she’s too nerdy for college (not cool enough for school...
Regular participants in the group, which averages about five to six in any given week, range from a 26 year-old woman with plans to attend the Kennedy School of Government to Kathleen O’Connor, a retired Vice Principal and self-described lapsed Roman Catholic from Brookline. Both women appreciate the group’s informality...
...don’t stop today. This spring, take advantage of the resources your House has to offer. Meet upperclassmen and the other freshmen in your House, attend advising sessions and spring formals, eat a random meal there with your blocking group—do whatever you can to get involved in residential life at your House. The sooner you make your House your home, the happier you will...
...Women are prevented from holding professional positions of high power. Journalists are locked up for writing articles that are critical of the government. Some of the country’s minorities—members of the Baha’i religion, for example—are often unable to attend university or are imprisoned on the basis of their faith. The way of life we take for granted in the U.S. and other westernized countries is foreign to the people of Iran. It is not implausible, however, that events such as this one, taking place in the context...
HUMAN BEINGS HAVE ALWAYS HAD A CAPACITY to attend to several things at once. Mothers have done it since the hunter-gatherer era--picking berries while suckling an infant, stirring the pot with one eye on the toddler. Nor is electronic multitasking entirely new: we've been driving while listening to car radios since they became popular in the 1930s. But there is no doubt that the phenomenon has reached a kind of warp speed in the era of Web-enabled computers, when it has become routine to conduct six IM conversations, watch American Idol on TV and Google...