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...less cumbersome. And in a paper first written in 2000 and recently revised, “Time Out or Burn Out for the Next Generation” (which can be found at http://www. admissions.college.harvard.edu/prospective/applying/time_off/index.html), we have expressed our concern about the increasing danger of “burnout?? for many students. We hope the end of early admission will be of some help in this regard...
...paper, linked from the admissions office website, Fitzsimmons, Lewis, and Ducey diagnose what they call the “burnout?? phenomenon. “Faced with the fast pace of growing up today, some students are clearly distressed,” they write. “Professionals in their thirties and forties—physicians, lawyers, academics, business people and others—sometimes give the impression that they are dazed survivors of some bewildering life-long boot-camp…Often they say they missed their youth entirely, never living in the present, always pursuing some...
Fitzsimmons, in his letter to incoming students urging them to consider taking a year off, wrote: “We want to do everything possible to help the students we enroll make the most of their opportunities, avoiding the much-reported “burnout?? phenomenon that can keep them from reaching their full potential...
...program’s host describes Green’s senior year of high school as “a year on the edge of burnout?? and suggests that the experiences of Green and his classmates are “a reflection of what seniors are going through across the country...
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