Word: existence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maintain such a diversity of organizations so solidly over the years is amazing. Unlike high school, there are few non-student members at the highest levels of the organization to lend stability. Just the turnover of staff would have doomed most businesses. But organizations here have managed to exist for years and through hundreds of students based only on the sheer will and motivation of students. The intense energy and self-motivation is incredible. And whether or not resume-building plays a part at the start, ultimately most students accept huge amounts of responsibility, sometimes at a cost that...
...life has more flavor than the daily bread and butter of lecture. All these activities do sap energy and time that could be used for academics, but that may be a fair price to pay for the good we receive. The administration should be glad that so many extracurriculars exist to absorb the energy of undergraduates--otherwise, they would have to cope with a far higher number of summa degrees...
...suicide of the cult followers shows that they lacked the very basic principle of life: one must have the will to live. Were these people seeking something that did not and could not exist? CHEVAUN BEDDY Pretoria, South Africa...
...current state of collegiate wisdom and maturity, however, I recognize that stereotypes exist, if only as social constructs. So why not enjoy them...
...Advising (a.k.a. "throw one study break a year and call it even"). Every student at Harvard harbors nightmarish stories about academic advising: usually, that it did not exist. Students also know that you're lucky if you get a house tutor on your floor who knows your name, or a proctor who sees you more than twice your first year (and then only to sign study cards). It would be better as it stands for Harvard to admit that it offers no real advising than to keep up the pretense. Maybe we don't need it anyway--we're Harvard...