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...interest of using this space for something other than another “follow your dreams,” “congratulations,” or the type of message you might find on one of those one-sentence motivational posters, I’m going to talk about entitlement. Harvard students have an amusingly misguided sense of entitlement, but after graduation that same sense becomes, within reason, something admirable...
...that zealous belief in unseen or partial evidence can have disastrous results. A thesis may begin with Paul’s version of belief, but it is developed only with a commitment to a process akin to the scientific method. You try out a hypothesis, have the guts to follow it through, and then evenly assess what you have. Crises of belief—“what if I am wrong?”—do threaten one’s resolve to forge ahead, but they also offer a check against becoming enamored with one?...
...Upon finishing, I found that I could contradict my thesis about as well as I could defend it, and I still had a list of questions and leads that I wanted to follow. I felt not just relief but wonder that I had finished what began with a bit of unseen evidence, and sadness that the process was over. What began with belief ended with knowledge, experience, and disbelief...
Radcliffe should have known. The few who follow women’s lightweight crew understand the nature of the sport in which anything can happen. With a field that is growing by the year, as more and more schools put out varsity eights to compete, the sport is wide open, and surprise finishes are beginning to become the norm. Never was this more evident than on Saturday at the IRA women’s national championships. Moving out of obscurity and into the national spotlight, the Bucknell Bisons won their first-ever national title, winning the lightweight Grand Finals with...
...hope that this experiment will be vindicated by increasingly diverse and exciting classes of future Harvardians. Princeton and the University of Virginia have already followed Harvard’s lead; as the evidence accumulates in the coming years, we hope other colleges will be willing to follow suit...