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...Four years at Harvard have convinced me that bright young people haven??t lost that ripple of hope, and that our idealism is slowly but surely yielding results. Seeing students participate in community service, political campaigns, protests, Reserve Officer Training Corp, and the hundreds of other activities and organization on this campus has convinced me that the myth of this generation’s apathy and disinterest is just a myth. To be sure, we may be a little careerist. But while Harvard is accused of sending all of its talented students into the black hole of finance...
...knee-jerk Boston homerism wasn’t going to cut it. I had to—and I wanted to—reconsider my opinions to make sure they actually made sense. And while many of them did, some of them didn’t.Of course, I haven??t completely changed my sports identity. I still love Boston teams, especially the Red Sox and Patriots, above all others. I still think those two teams have developed their organizations more intelligently than most of their competitors (and I have the championships to back me up on that...
Despite the severity of the situation at the Oxford, Miss. campus, Kennedy tried to lighten up his aides through jokes. “I haven??t had such an interesting time since the Bay of Pigs,” Kennedy said on the tape...
...students should receive e-mails from their professors or TFs with a personal grade breakdown for the year, as well as a class-wide grade distribution on finals in larger classes. This would allow students to understand grades they haven??t necessarily kept track of, such as homework and midterm scores, as well as grades they often never see, such as those for final exams and section participation. Seeing what areas of the course they needed the most improvement in would help students learn more from the class...
...Nick Bostrom, writing in the recent publication of the Technology Review, hypothesizes that the reason humans haven??t heard from intelligent space-faring life is that all of them have been prevented either by a barrier that would prevent them from getting to our stage of development (i.e. conditions needed to start life) or by a barrier that destroyed them before they could begin spreading into space (i.e. they built a LHC). If the barrier is the latter, then humanity could be in store for a bumpy future...