Word: burnout
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wanted to do everything, and in retrospect it almost seems that I did. Doing everything, especially things I love, made me happy. But my packed schedule wasn’t without its consequences. There were several periods of intense burnout, and I sometimes wondered if I had taken the right path. My parents seemed to have had more adventurous or carefree college lives, at least romantically. Where was the love? (As my roommate Ben will tell you, it wasn’t in the countless conversations we had where I complained to him about women for our first three...
...Slam wins have given Capriati plenty of confidence, which she needs, since her game is based on not holding back on her second serve and aiming right at the lines. "I wanted to show the world that I'm not this has-been or this burnout or this total, like, rebellious teenager," she says. When she talks about her past, she still tenses up. "I had to learn to like myself, to love my family. Now I enjoy playing, and it's shown up in my results...
...sent Cheney to the hospital. Rather, scar tissue had formed around the wire-mesh stent that was implanted last November to open a blocked coronary artery. This had led to a renarrowing, or restenosis, of the vessel. (Restenosis occurs in 20% of such cases.) Although one study suggests that "burnout" can trigger restenosis, the evidence is hardly conclusive and in any case doesn't apply to Cheney, who obviously relishes his job. "If you have a job you love, then you're lucky," says Dr. Alan Wasserman, chief of medicine at George Washington University Hospital, where Cheney was treated...
...schedules. An earlier end to the spring semester would assist students seeking jobs or summer programs that begin in late May, improving the reputation of the Office of Career Services. And the new schedule would save admissions officers from charges of hypocrisy, as they publicly decry student burnout and at the same time deny students so much as a single week of stress-free vacation. No doubt some small inconveniences would arise, but after all, one cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs...
Anyway, am I the only one who finds it a bit silly that the Bureau of Study Counsel is blaming college student burnout on their experience in high school? Isn't it more likely that college burnout is due to stress during college, not before it? After all, Harvard concentration advising programs consistently receive abysmal reviews in the senior survey. First-year advising dominated by the proctor system is notoriously weak. And the inadequacy of University Health Services has been scrutinized by two of the campus's major student magazines in the past two weeks...