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...thing is that I work in a hospital that has 10,000 employees throughout the system. You will naturally disappear as a cog in the machine. The pressure is to simply get through your day,” he says. “But we all need human interaction to be effective at what...
...Dilemma” and super-saturating myself with soy, I’ve changed my tune. As with many things, I’ve found that what is “sustainable” is much more complicated than I once assumed.)Soon I had became another cog in the problem-set machine of introductory science. By mid-November, I had jettisoned all my newfound passions in the throes of that ubiquitous Harvard-freshman identity crisis. Only the EAC remained. In a bizarre twist of fate, I had become its co-chair by my freshman spring. The previous fall...
...looking forward to being just another cog in the machine,” Tsang says...
...Klimkiewicz’s career—in danger of ending, the powerful righty reached base in eight of ten plate appearances, going 6-for-8, getting beaned twice, driving in four runs, scoring five, and hitting a moonshot home run. All year long, Klimkiewicz was the critical cog in the middle of the Crimson order and an imposing presence for opposing hurlers. The masher’s team-leading seven home runs upped his career total to 25, while the intimidation factor earned him a league-leading 26 walks. And after going unrecognized for three seasons...
...used in movies like “Starship Troopers” and “Jurassic Park,” and won him two Academy Awards.Despite the accolades, Knep felt trapped. “I wasn’t satisfied with what I was doing. I was a small cog in this giant machine,” he says of his Hollywood days. So, he quit.Knep decided that if he were going to stick with computers, it would have to be in a radically new way, in order to preserve his own sanity.“I think technology...