Word: burnout
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...before Christmas would require both a shorter reading period and an earlier start date for the College; both are significant detriments for students. A crunch at the end of the semester, as students frantically rush to finish all of their work, decreases work quality and has been known to burnout students...
...mindlessly or mindfully, and mindlessness is more ubiquitous than most people realize. When we are mindless, for all intents and purposes, we’re not there to notice. The body essentially turns off as we mindlessly disengage, but the consequences of mindlessness are real and often important. Accidents, burnout, poor performance, memory problems and interpersonal difficulties may not be far behind. Dramatic events like the loss of the professor’s son are often necessary to force us to take notice...
...Being a burnout got old after a year, and Dean decided his life could take one of three paths. He could teach, as he had done for three months at a junior high school in inner-city New Haven, Conn., near Yale. He could be a doctor. Or he could take "the path of least resistance" and go to Wall Street. He quickly dismissed teaching as "too hard ... There were a lot of kids with enormous numbers of needs, and I couldn't meet them all." Medical school would require enrolling in difficult premed classes, since he had done little...
...gift?the gorgeous village of Eumundi is one of the few Queensland towns that have almost entirely preserved its colonial and Federation-period architecture. Many of the buildings surrounding the market were built between 1890 and 1930. And there's an engrossing little museum to browse through when market burnout sets...
When granting Faculty paid leave, the University must strike a careful balance. Everyone wins when professors are given time to devote themselves to important research and stave off burnout before returning to regular teaching—everyone, that is, except the undergraduate students who are unable to study under them. With a well-crafted leave policy, this wouldn’t be a problem; though there would always be professors absent from the community at any given time, the vast majority would still be enriching Harvard by teaching undergraduates. Under such a system, no more than a few professors...