Word: everydayness
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...Junior International Tennis Federation tour or attend school. “I was traveling so much that my parents and I felt like I couldn’t keep up with both,” she says. “I couldn’t go to school everyday. It was impossible.” Ko’s Singaporean parents understood the incredible opportunities the tennis world could offer their young prodigy. They pulled her out of school and enrolled her in classes through Cambridge Academy, a program they found online. However, the decision was not made lightly. When...
...everyone here. Everyone has at least one thing that he or she was accepted for, and everyone feels under-qualified in at least some respects. The best thing about coming to Harvard is realizing how human everyone is. This isn’t a college of superheroes but of everyday people. Yet Harvard students are rightfully known for putting themselves on pedestals, which moves us further away from the problems in the world that I believe we have a duty to try and solve. A never-ending argument about who deserves to be here is one of the many ways...
...stories that the media renders most visible in our everyday lives of privilege are those from the top of that pyramid. Even the stories of suffering come mostly from the U.S.-Mexican border, even though most of the death and destruction comes miles before it is even reached. I am probably one of the few fortunate people, traveling frequently between rural Guatemala and the hallowed halls of Harvard, that is lucky enough to be reminded of the top and bottom of that pyramid. What scares me the most is that rural Guatemala is actually middle class in comparison with...
...know that we can look up there now and everyday that we practice [and] see that banner and see the accomplishments, it’s really cool to know that you are going to be part of basketball history here at Harvard,” sophomore Katie Rollins said...
...Batman is an everyday man, just like you and me. He has no special powers—he is a self-made man, the American dream. He may have been born into privilege, but the early death of his parents was a trial that truly tested his fortitude. Some individuals with less personal strength would have been shattered by the blow. But rather than crumble under the misery, he pulled himself up by his bootstraps and made something constructive out of his despair. Now, that’s what I call rugged individualism...