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...life of a graduate student-parent can involve extensive juggling to make ends meet...
...ease with which we misread not just pictures but conversations, people, events, and other things that occur in day-to-day life shows us how quick we are to make assumptions. Like in the case of the Guissette Muniz photograph, a girl on an empty street is immediately interpreted negatively because we project our impression of poverty onto what we see before us. We have a compulsion to categorize everything that we come into contact with into neatly drawn boxes—even though all our experiences of life point us to the contrary. Life doesn?...
Where once we were afforded lag time to process all that we hear and see, life and its fast pace now facilitate our misjudgments. Although it is easy to make assumptions and then move on as life speeds past on a jet stream, an awareness of our tendencies and a brief pause before we categorize could make the difference between a desolate child and a family’s little princess...
...still coming down every single day, going to practice, and doing rehab,” he says. “I would see the guys every day, and they were rooting me on during rehab and hoping that I would make it back on to the court...They thanked me a lot for sticking through it and coming down, so they were definitely very supportive...
...this process of putting Harvard basketball on the map, trying to make tournaments and win the Ivy league, trying to get recognition around the country as a good basketball program, and being able to say, ‘I was on the team that really put Harvard basketball on the map,’ that really means a lot to me,” he says...