Word: mentality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Stressed? Anxious? Anorexic? Probably. This is Harvard, after all. On a jaunt through the Yard, the Harvard College undergraduate runs into a flurry of posters and signs urging him to seek help for his various mental health issues. There is a great deal of concern at Harvard over the emotional wellness of its undergraduates. Owing to the rigorous course load, intense level of competition, and high population of type-A personalities, the college is running on anti-depressants. Hordes of social advocacy groups exist at Harvard to save its undergraduates from depressing, unrewarding, teetering-on-the-edge-of-serious-mental...
...multitasking devices, social scientists and educators are just beginning to assess their impact, but the researchers already have some strong opinions. The mental habit of dividing one's attention into many small slices has significant implications for the way young people learn, reason, socialize, do creative work and understand the world. Although such habits may prepare kids for today's frenzied workplace, many cognitive scientists are positively alarmed by the trend. "Kids that are instant messaging while doing homework, playing games online and watching TV, I predict, aren't going to do well in the long run," says Jordan Grafman...
...phone call or some kind of e-stimulation may not be getting that needed reprieve. Habitual multitasking may condition their brain to an overexcited state, making it difficult to focus even when they want to. "People lose the skill and the will to maintain concentration, and they get mental antsyness," says Meyer...
...women’s center should be a place where students can go to hear female role models speak about sociopolitical issues—specific to women or not. It should be a place where students can receive counseling about sexual and health issues—eating disorders, mental wellness, and safe sex. It should be a place where students can go to just hang out, to retreat from the crunch of Harvard Yard...
...University President Charles W. Eliot said, “The corporation will not receive women as students…because the world knows next to nothing about the natural and mental capacity of the female sex.” We have left behind this primitive idea but have not stepped up to demonstrate our commitment to respecting women by making institutional changes to welcome them. A women’s center isn’t going to fix all of the sexism at Harvard, but change has to start somewhere, and the women’s center is a long...