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...worrying about what was required or expected: my best friends, David and Marianne, climbing trees in the small courtyard while discussing Heidegger and recognizing the pretentiousness; long coffees in the Barker Center with girlfriends discussing our floundering thesis projects and fierce “Project Runway”; or countless nights at Charlie’s Kitchen, Grendel’s Den, or Cambridge 1 with my roommates where emotions ran as high about their classes as for the Celtics...
This is an experiment, of course, but it tells us a lot about the power of niches and self-sorting. Countless students (and others) are exercising their freedom of choice, with the aid of new technologies, to replicate the Colorado experiment. On the Internet and on campus, they sort themselves into groups of like-minded types. People fence in, and fence out, both topics and points of view. In fact, the Internet is producing fascinating variations on the Colorado experiment every...
...architecture of serendipity. They can promote common spaces in which different types of people mingle together. They can promote interactions between people who are different in terms of political convictions, social backgrounds, and even interests. They can combat self-segregation through housing assignments, curriculum, and social nudges of countless different kinds...
...game, not just a college coach, and was recognized for his outstanding work by being named 2008 New England PGA Teacher of the Year. That award runs in the family—Rhoads’ father, Rick, won the award twice in California. “He spends countless hours with us,” captain Jessica Hazlett said. “For him, it’s like having 10 kids. He makes sure we’re doing well on and off the course. And he does a great job of ensuring a positive team dynamic and making...
...Eliot’s (Class of 1853) plan when he thought of the inscriptions, that the gates would be locked at 7 P.M. every day, effectively hindering townies from growing in wisdom and freshmen from serving their country. I also wondered how much wisdom I had gained from the countless midterms and finals I took within those gates. It occurred to me that I might have an incomplete understanding of “wisdom...