Word: mindset
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...rest assured—everyone else is in the same boat. In high school, most Harvard students did all the work, and did it excellently. Here, if you get in the mindset that you’re going to read every last book on the list, you’ll end up driving yourself crazy. I don’t mean to suggest that you neglect your classes—just that you take the reading lists with a grain of salt...
...anorexia. People, especially young women, suffering from anorexia tend to be perfectionists dead set on gaining approval. They want to smooth down all the rough edges, make sure everyone (except themselves) is happy, be exactly the kind of person everyone expects them to be. It?s a very tough mindset to maintain, and you can only do it if you?re willing to suffer (which anorexics are only too happy to do) and if you can be strong in the face of adversity (i.e. food and the people who are trying...
...addiction, needles and misery. Mushrooms, on the other hand, seem much more benign, mainly because of their easy availability and image as a "natural" drug. "It feels just like drinking alcohol," says a 27-year-old 'shroomer, a TV cameraman who declines to give his name. The psychedelic mindset has also gotten a boost from the burgeoning popularity of drug-induced rave parties and trance music?a global phenomenon that has struck Japan with a vengeance over the past few years...
Right now, “distance learning” is largely a trendy buzzword, the higher education counterpart of America’s fascination with everything e-. But it reflects a mindset that becomes increasingly deep-seated with each year: the idea that education is a commodity, a quantity that can be transferred, like bank accounts or stock quotes, over fiber-optic wires or DSL lines. The University’s newfound emphasis on globalization suggests that the administration is coming to see “Harvard” as a brand name rather than a place...
...Donnell says he and other Harvard students at that time were still of the mindset that they had to enter “respectable” professions, like medicine...