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Social isolation has many well-documented side effects. Kids fail to thrive. Crime rises. Politics coarsens. Generosity shrivels. Death comes sooner (social isolation is as big a risk factor for premature death as smoking). Well-connected people live longer, happier lives, even if they have to forgo a new Lexus to spend time with friends...
...Happiness,” we are often happiest when we make a decision on the fly and it is irreversible. Hence, a student who decides on a whim to sign up for the Marines and becomes legally obligated to perform four years of service will most likely be happier than the student who spends months agonizing over job choices and finally chooses the one with the highest pay with an option to quit whenever he wants. In other words, future Nick, take the job that you think will be most fulfilling, but pick it on a whim, and don?...
...rich style that enhances both the comedy and the pathos, A Friend of the Family is the best film in the current Cannes session. To me, Sorrentino is the young hope of Italian cinema. He doesn't turn 36 until next Wednesday, and I couldn't imagine a happier or better deserved birthday present than a Palme d'Or. Then he, like the residents (and sometimes the journalists) of Cannes, could party all night...
...providing dining hall workers with higher wages would be further justified by the need for a better safety net for unexpected summer unemployment (even at its best, Harvard could never re-hire all dining hall employees for the summer). Moreover, the entire Harvard community stands to gain from a happier, better compensated work-force...
...stop complaining. But at the risk of sounding like Little Miss Sunshine, it’s worth remembering why Harvard is special before you only have three weeks left. Despite Harvard’s problems, I would guess that most of us wouldn’t be happier anywhere else. Our culture of complaint pushes the change that needs to be made, but c’mon, we have it pretty good.Margaret M. Rossman ’06 is an English concentrator in Mather House. Her column appears regularly...