Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those students now considering whether to write a thesis should think carefully. If you expect to proceed to graduate studies, then the thesis may be a prime way of testing your enthusiasm and showing your talents to potential schools. But if you are only looking for a line on the resume, remember that few potential employers can distinguish between the almost-gratuitous Cum Laude and an honors degree in your concentration...
...good thesis requires an extraordinary amount of blood, sweat and tears. But it is not the only path to distinction. Before steeling yourself to its chains, make sure your enthusiasm reflects a will to commit to weeks where you will focus on nothing but esoteric puzzles that will surely bore your roommates. And if you truly are mad north be northwest, submit to an experience whose rewards go far beyond the honors degree...
Epps adds that the enthusiasm of Mather residents has worked to shift the atmosphere and appearance of the house...
...ghost in the machine," as Ryle derisively put it--as a hangover from prescientific thought. Ryle's juiciest target was the sort of soul imagined back in the 17th century by Rene Descartes: an immaterial, somewhat autonomous soul that steers the body through life. But the book subdued enthusiasm for even less supernatural versions of a soul: mind, consciousness, subjective experience...
...philosophy is to play with heart and enthusiasm," said Walsh...