Word: burnout
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...have already adopted this policy have found no gap in first year of grades of those admitted with SAT's and those without, despite the fact that the SAT scores of the former group were significantly higher. Optional SAT's would be a concrete step towards easing high school burnout. And it would show that Harvard can actually practice what it preaches...
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...
...home from psychiatric care without follow-up. The town's only private psychiatrist has just retired and can't find a replacement willing to move here. At the town's well-intentioned but underfunded mental-health clinic for indigents, the staff turnover is 100% annually, mostly on account of burnout. One psychologist and two counselors divvy up the 200-plus "consumers" in Adams County. For many, the extent of therapy is little more than a weekly or monthly visit for their pills or shots...
...BURNOUT The benefit of a pallidotomy, a treatment for Parkinson's in which a tiny area in the brain is cauterized, is dramatic and immediate. Long-term effects, though, may be another story. Five years after patients in a study underwent pallidotomy, characteristic problems like difficulty performing manual tasks gradually returned, though improvement in tremors, twitches and muscle stiffness was sustained. Overall, ability to bathe, dress and participate in other activities of daily living was no better than before the surgery...
Robinson knows we'll see chimps back in orbit before we see a federal mandate for vacation time. But he hopes a debate on the bottom-line realities of burnout will inspire a rash of enlightened self-interest among employers. So before you see how far you can get this summer on your short vacation leash, take a trip to Escapemag.com and sign a petition. Provence, Tuscany, the Greek isles--your employer owes you nothing less. Workers of the world, unite...