Word: career
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just can't seem to give it up. A paper Colgan wrote last year for the course might lead to a possible career path. She's taking next year off to expand the idea, which she describes as "very autobiographical," into a full-length novel...
...test that determines whether we are spending our working lives doing the (individually defined) right thing. Explain what you have chosen to do with your working life to a victim of the world's problems--a malnourished Angolan girl, a homeless Bolivian man, a Tibetan political prisoner. Your career choice is valid only if you can justify it to that person in good conscience...
...wealth. They occasionally emphasize their desire to re-imagine selfishly procured wealth, upon their retirement, as wealth selflessly donated to charity. This ends-justify-the-means rationale is both a moral fiasco and a logical pretzelism. It feebly attempts to justify the convenient self-interestedness of a socially irresponsible "career" by miraculously spawning an altruistic intention to "direct funds toward" the world's betterment, after the fact. Why spend life canceling oneself out? Why imbue some corpulent, guilt-ridden check with the vicarious virtue that life itself could have epitomized...
When it comes time to choose a career, the majority of Harvard folk are unable to pose the crucial question to themselves: What can I do with my life that is existentially meaningful? The modern incarnation of Success (a frightfully narrow-minded and shortsighted beast, despite some superficial attractiveness) has seduced many, indoctrinating in them the deluded equation of material possession with existential significance. Hordes of people dedicate their lives to the ravenous chasing of money--a spiritually bankrupt plutolatry--as if money were anything other than a means to some end. Though earning money is necessary, especially in light...
...sprains this summer were the last straw in a series of ankle problems dating back to Clemente's high school career. A twisted ankle last season kept Clemente out of three games last season, including the Penn-Princeton series at Lavietes Pavilion in February. The Crimson was 1-2 in games Clemente missed...