Word: joyful
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...patterns, looking for hidden relationships, trying to make contact with measured data—it’s all uncertainty and possibility engaged in an endless chaotic dance. Every so often the blur resolves, but the respite is short-lived; the next puzzle demands focus. This, really, is the joy of being a scientist. Established truths are comforting, but it is the mysteries that make the soul ache and render a life of exploration worth living...
...call you when I’m done.’” In the sand, he wrote, “Jennifer, will you marry me? Love, Cesar,” to which Jennifer exclaimed, “Oh my God, yes,” through tears of joy. The couple is conducting research this upcoming year at the Longwood campus as they apply to medical school, which they plan to attend together...
...sports knowledge expanded by covering teams like volleyball and sailing along with my better-known favorites. But inevitably, my experience at the Crimson has gone far beyond the coverage—and, in so doing, gone far beyond neutrality. No one who follows sports can maintain that the joy they find in it is just about sports: it’s about family, friends, lasting memories, and unforgettable moments. College, unsurprisingly, is the same way. Covering sports in my four years at Harvard has led me to unexpected people and places, and even made me reconsider my career plans. Most...
...sport as life, though. That’s certainly the case for Jeffrey, who never quite understood why a white kid catching passes from a black kid on the “black” side of town was such an extraordinary achievement. For him, it was the simple joy of being able to run, to compete and not to worry about anything else in the process...
...what did come was a shriek of unbridled joy from the mouth of one of my colleagues, in response to the remarkable fourth overtime turnover in the triple-overtime edition of The Game that still sits with me as the most amazing athletic competition I’ve ever seen in person...