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However, just like living in any other demographic bubble, age homogeneity can cause us to lose perspective. After hearing me fret over a course grade one of my academic advisors, reminded me “The skills that make you academically successful are different from the skills that are valuable in the workplace.” When you get wrapped up in the measures of and goals of college life, it’s useful to be reminded that Harvard is a four-year world whose influence will eventually yield to that of some employer or spouse you haven?...
...difficult as it may seem to do this. There are ways to break out the age homogeneity of our circles, and we should make use of them. Tutors, House Masters, teaching fellows, professors, HUDS staff, the little kids running around the dining halls there are many people within our community at stages of life very different from undergraduates. Conversations with them can be seen as necessary checks on the tendency to conceive student life as the only type of life...
...added that art gallery visitors can learn to make previously undiscovered connections between different cultures and that a “visual dialogue” between different types of art can expand the “perspective and context in which students and museum visitors consider the scope of art history...
Other possible contenders who attract buzz, including former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, South Dakota Senator John Thune, Texas Governor Rick Perry and Indiana Congressman Mike Pence, are doing very little to make themselves known, conceive a strategy or raise sufficient funds. The later one starts, the harder it is to put together a winning plan. On the other hand, as long as no single prospect is running fast ahead of the pack, there is less of a price to pay for a late entry. As the deadline approaches, as happens every cycle, we are likely to see a number...
...Make no mistake, Obama no longer towers as the über-formidable candidate of 2008. Yet the drastic ups and downs of his first year in office and the likely losses his party will suffer in the November midterms have given a distorted view of his muscle for 2012. He is back on track to raise $1 billion, with all of it to be applied to the general election, rather than to any serious nomination contest. Obama will almost certainly opt out of the matching-funds system for the nomination period and public financing for the general election, raising record...