Word: learnedness
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House life at Harvard is wonderful and provides many unique opportunities for interacting with and learning from our peers, but it completely insulates us from the worries of everyday life. It is possible to graduate from Harvard never having cleaned a bathroom, never having cooked a meal, and never having...
More importantly, however, I have learned to fully embrace the Restart option in my life. The power to begin again, to start afresh, is underappreciated as a life skill and it is one I hope that our graduates will come to approach with appreciation rather than apprehension. Successfully restarting through...
The growth for me was equally vast. I learned Apple Computers, local area networks, email, venture capital, diversity training, thinking outside the box on a daily basis and much, much more. Most importantly, I learned how valuable it is to be forced—or to force oneself�...
I learned that the most memorable part of a lecture class—in the absence of the experiential stories that reveal the humanity of the professor and the debates that recognize the students’—is the coffee, giant chocolate-chip cookies, and the inklings of...
By the time I reached Harvard, I had learned how to sit relatively still for an hour and to reduce others’ thoughts to halfway comprehensible scribbles.[no paragraph break here] Part of the trick to remaining sane while sitting still for so long is to allow the mind...