Word: dead-end
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...object to having done all this work. Writing papers is, of course, one of the prime ways we digest information and ideas, and I even find it (at times) enjoyable. What does perturb me is the isolated, dead-end nature of the writing process here at Harvard. Paper-writing, rather than serving as an integral part of the learning process, all too often becomes something we do on our own, late at night, hunched in front of our computers, with one overriding goal: to just get it done. If my work habits fall toward the middle of the spectrum, this...
...introduced to alcohol when he's young might merely become a drunk. A thousand track switches have to click in sequence for the child who starts out toward greatness to wind up there. If a single one clicks wrong, the high-speed rush toward a Nobel Prize can dead-end in a makeshift shack in the Montana woods. Says Rabbi Moshe Tendler, professor of both biology and biblical law at Yeshiva University in New York City: "I can make myself an Albert Einstein, and he may turn out to be a drug addict...
...Cherokee through the Southwest wilderness, he points with disgust at the freshly dug track he's following. It meanders into a streambed, emerges from the other side and then stops abruptly. In just one afternoon Rait, an environmentalist with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, will find several more such dead-end trails, ranging from a mere quarter mile to a few miles long. Not one of them goes anywhere at all. "They're cutting roads all over the place out here," he says wearily...
...classic afternoon's adventure for young suburbanites, with a touch--but no more--of peril. In Wilmette, Winnetka, Glencoe and Kenilworth, the posh white suburbs served by New Trier, drug use isn't associated with gang violence, crack houses, addiction or dead-end despair. Getting high has become almost boringly conventional. Drew (names and some other identifying features have been changed), a regular at the Corner, has even kicked around the notion of buying "New Trier Smoking Club" jackets with his friends and awarding mock varsity letters...
...boorish, disrespectful self-stigmatized pseudo-intellectual who attempted to defend his unprofessional actions by citing Plato instead of heeding his employer's request for a formal apology. At the very least, he could have said: "Look, I graduated from Harvard in 1976, but I'm stuck in a dead-end job. Can't you understand why I'm grouchy...