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It is easy to feel unaccomplished here. There’s always someone more accomplished at Harvard—someone with better LSAT scores, someone with a higher thesis grade, someone with a better reference to Kant in Justice section. But, more importantly, it can be difficult to figure out...

Author: By Gabriel J Daly | Title: Not All Who Wander Are Lost | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

As Harvard students, we are in a unique position—we cannot really fail. Of course, we will all fail at some point; we’ll fail to win a girl’s love, to earn a promotion, to gain access to the right law school, just...

Author: By Gabriel J Daly | Title: Not All Who Wander Are Lost | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

Entering such a setting as an outside observer provides a new perspective on the apparent ridiculousness of some status-determining customs in a closed system. Exam questions at St. Stephen’s, for instance, came from a short list approved 20 years ago by the central University of Delhi...

Author: By Max J Kornblith | Title: The More Things Change | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

It’s only in going abroad that I learned to view the customs of the game as it is played here as diverging interpretations of the same social impulse seen at Stephen’s. Subtracted from their grounding assumptions, I can admit that the constraints I take...

Author: By Max J Kornblith | Title: The More Things Change | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

Many Harvard students speak of going abroad as an item they wish they’d gotten to on their list of things to do in college. The percentage who actually spend a full term abroad, though, barely pushes double digits. It may often have left me feeling like nothing...

Author: By Max J Kornblith | Title: The More Things Change | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

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