Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have the peculiar quality of being shaken by events of the smallest magnitude. As if the they were capable of throwing off the direction of your journey. Hah. Beef...
...then set out on a cross-Vietnam journey with a single goal: to find a cure for opium addiction. He collected more than 100 herbal potions that villagers substituted for opium when their poppy crops failed and their supplies dwindled. Eventually, he decided on a drastic step: to addict himself to opium and experiment on himself. "I knew from my brother how dangerous this could be," he says, "but I decided this was the only...
...find it's useful to look back and see where I've come from, because I know I will be a completely different person by the end of the semester," she says. "It's a really interesting journey...
Rudenstine, in his impeccable style, was talking about how college was a "journey" and an "adventure." Things would change, he told the Class of 2001. You may have arrived this week at Harvard with a firm idea of who you are and what you will become, but by the end of first semester, you might discover that you no longer want to be a doctor or a businessperson or "God help us, a lawyer." Instead, he explained in the sort of wistful voice that only academics can affect, you might discover a passion for the English Palladians (whoever they...
...smart" doesn't really matter that much anymore. Instead, what matters is being able to see past your own intelligence to other things that are far more important-and far more impressive. Sure, some would-be doctors did end up getting really into spores. But even for them, the "journey" that started a few Septembers ago really didn't have that much to do with Harvard at all. It was life, not "college," but real life-that wandering and bludgeoning beast that withers in the lights of libraries and labs but roams and spawns in shared bedrooms and dirty bathrooms...