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...first novel, The Women's Room. It was decried by some critics as militant, man-hating propaganda, but its themes of female solidarity and empowerment didn't seem hugely radical to my blithe circle of undergraduate friends. French would later define feminism as "the belief that women matter as much as men do." My generation took this for granted but found a bittersweet compulsion to the tale of Mira, a 1950s housewife forced to challenge male expectations...
...Flores, who said she had initially expected “primarily administrative cuts” to be announced last Monday, said before the meeting that the strong student reaction to the budget cuts is being met with little response from administrators. “[Students] are realizing that no matter how many petitions they’re doing or e-mails they write... they’re not getting any sort of response,” she said. “Even though we’re the consumers of the education, we’re not able to give...
...might be a good time to ponder that great philosophical question: does any of it really matter? In the grand scheme of things, will your sense of well-being be affected by the fact that you failed this exam (meaning, got a B minus) many years...
...you’ve been having a rough exams period and are in need of a good catharsis, read this. No, it isn’t one of those irritating stop-worrying-about-grades-because-they-don’t-actually-matter treatises. It’s an article about a pretty amazing 70-year study that has followed about 200 Harvard students from the late 1930s (including JFK) to find out what truly makes us happy...
...what does really matter? What are the secrets to a well-adjusted life? Check out what we learned from the study, after the jump...