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...encouraging representatives to attend the event. Yesterday Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10, the vice-chair of the UC’s Committee on College Life, came to show his support. “Without using our role as student advocates to help raise awareness, we fail our constituents,” he said. “When you have an environment of denial, you also have an environment that’s more permissive.” Susan B. Marine, who directs the Harvard College Women’s Center, said that events like “Take...
...question of whether we will kill the planet. It is a matter of maintaining a survivable habitat for ourselves. Thousands of species are already in danger of extinction, which raises the question, Will we be able to adapt, or are we just another soon-to-fail genetic experiment...
...freshman spring, I failed to attend lecture or section in two classes for 8 weeks. Every night, I would promise myself that I would go the next morning, but when the time came to get out of bed, I simply couldn’t. Inevitably, as I fell further and further behind, it became impossible to catch up on my own; I was completely paralyzed by feelings of failure and inadequacy. Most of all, I didn’t want anyone to know, so I pretended, even to myself, that I wasn’t depressed and everything was fine...
Rather than striving for perfection at Harvard the most important element in student success might be the ability to fail. When a small group of self-proclaimed perfectionists gathered at the Bureau of Study Counsel this spring to participate in a workshop titled “Perfectionism: A Double-Edged Sword,” the argument that I presented was simple: “You have excelled and made it to Harvard despite, rather than because of, your perfectionist habits.” The students expressed their skepticism about my statement, but seemed intrigued when I told them research...
Especially among the researchers developing them. "My trial was designed to have every chance to fail," says Bendandi. "If just one patient relapsed while receiving the vaccine, it would have been over. I would have needed a new job," he jokes. But the Italian-born physician is still working. In a few weeks he starts his new study, which is designed to test the vaccine's effectiveness in follicular lymphoma patients with an especially poor prognosis. Bendandi plans to administer the vaccine to participants until they relapse or die from a cause other than lymphoma. "This time," he says...