Word: dust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down with someone at the Office of Career Services. If he or she asks you what you want to do, what do you think you would be good at, all things being equal, can you answer them? Do you know? Have you really tried to dust out the cobwebs in your mental attic, to remember what drives you in the first place...
...down with someone at the Office of Career Services. If he or she asks you what you want to do, what do you think you would be good at, all things being equal, can you answer them? Do you know? Have you really tried to dust out the cobwebs in your mental attic, to remember what drives you in the first place...
...Harvard is old. Older than plastic. Older than the lightbulb. Older than America. It is older than I can understand. "The stock of the Puritans," as the Alma Mater goes. Three hundred and fifty years of history, of people and buildings and dust is a lot to have to deal with. But for all that cumulative experience, Harvard is really only as old as the people who actually inhabit it--they just have the opportunity to listen to the dead. The Widener approach--with a memorial room open for about five non-consecutive hours a day and only made...
...mimics older styles with art deco study lamps and bits of marble here and there. But it's phony: the energy-saving bulbs still give off that wholly-unnatural purplish light and the turnstiles--they speak for themselves. Even without those kinds of mistakes, there's no accounting for dust or all the other details that reassure a person that generations have come before. They have deposited wisdom--which can now be absorbed--and they have departed. It makes a fellow all stoic...
Harvard is old. Older than plastic. Older than the lightbulb. Older than America. It is older than I can understand. "The stock of the Puritans," as the Alma Mater goes. Three hundred and fifty years of history, of people and buildings and dust is a lot to have to deal with. But for all that cumulative experience, Harvard is really only as old as the people who actually inhabit it--they just have the opportunity to listen to the dead. The Widener approach--with a memorial room open for about five non-consecutive hours a day and only made...