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...high level of interpersonal competition at Harvard might seem obvious, and discussing it, trite. But something about this quest for individuality here fascinates me, the innate desire to find something in oneself that validates existence amidst genius. For some, it’s the raw intellectual horsepower. For others, it’s the ability to navigate complex social hierarchies, to read men instinctively. For yet others, it’s the ability to cling to morals when others toss theirs aside. Maybe it’s just having the right combination of all the above. To justify one?...
...especially means a lot to me because I engage in a lot of extracurriculars,” said Melvoin, who is also a Crimson magazine writer. “So it was nice to know that I could still participate in academics at a rigorous level, and not at the exclusion of other activities Harvard has to offer...
According to Devin D. Smith, a senior at Lesley College who has been interning at the Center this semester and helped to organize the event, The Women’s Center wanted to bring the panelists together in an organized forum and use their “level of expertise” to encourage dialogue among students
Woods also stressed the importance of political involvement at the grassroots level...
...demography. This generation of parents, born after 1964, waited longer to marry and had fewer children. Families are among the smallest in history, which means our genetic eggs are in fewer baskets and we guard them all the more zealously. Helicopter parents can be found across all income levels, all races and ethnicities, says Patricia Somers of the University of Texas at Austin, who spent more than a year studying the species at the college level. "There are even helicopter grandparents," she notes, who turn up with their elementary-school grandchildren for college-information sessions aimed at juniors and seniors...