Word: leaping
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...choice to defer--postponing graduate or professional school in favor of a short-term commitment--was an attractive option for many seniors. With the pressures of the "real world" looming, some chose to defer, while others have decided to leap directly into their long-term careers...
Indeed, that is where we are now, each of us, on the highest diving board there is, with the world sprawled out below us. We have a Harvard diploma. We can be anything we want to be. Most of us have made the leap, but I keep waiting for inspiration to strike, waiting for a way out of accepting the need to jump...
Maybe the moment that Harvard will reward you will be the moment when you forge your greatest ties to the University. Maybe it will be the moment when you get some job or make some leap through the connections and thinking that you gained here. But maybe it will be the moment when something that is distinctly not Harvard--even though you might have found that something here--becomes more important to you than Harvard. And when you succeed in taking what Harvard has given you, whether it was something you searched for or something you stumbled upon--you will...
...decision to make the leap from teaching, which she focused on for two years at the College, to that of administrating happened in part because she thought she could be an example of someone who had gone into an "eccentric" career, she says...
...this time, as we say in Tennessee and Texas, you've ripped your britches," wrote James Dunn of the Baptist Joint Committee, whose group favors a clear separation between church and state. "The notion that public funds will not alter the religious character of faith-based programs requires a leap of faith that even Kierkegaard could not negotiate...