Word: mismatch
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...could about how I should spend the next two years. In making my decision to apply, I considered advice from Rhodes alums, Oxford instructors, Yale teachers and mentors, and my family and friends. In the end, though, it was my choice to apply. Had I found Oxford a mismatch for me, it would be unfair to blame those who had given me advice simply because they could not magically predict whether I’d be happy in grad school...
...Harvard a sobering introduction to life without senior center Brian Cusworth, a young member of the Crimson’s frontcourt made the 1,500 fans in attendance at Lavietes Pavilion forget, at least for one game, the loss of the departed seven-footer. In a seeming Ivy League mismatch, pitting the hottest team in the circuit in Cornell, winners of four straight and seven of its last eight, against a Harvard squad that had looked awful in every facet of the game in a 90-70 loss to the Lions, Crimson sophomore forward Evan Harris came up with...
...human face. From brain-imaging studies we also know that the brain has some sort of visual buffer that continues to represent objects after they have been removed--a lingering perception rather than conceptual understanding. So when babies encounter novel or unexpected events, Sirois explains, "there's a mismatch between the buffer and the information they're getting at that moment. And what you do when you've got a mismatch is you try to clear the buffer. And that takes attention." So learning, says Sirois, is essentially the laborious business of resolving mismatches. "The thing...
...misconceptions about who gets stressed out and why. Twenty years ago, psychologists almost exclusively blamed job stress on high workloads or lack of control on the job. More recent studies, says Christina Maslach, a pioneer in burnout research at the University of California, Berkeley, show that unfairness and a mismatch in values between employees and their companies play an increasing role in triggering stress. "Probably one of the strongest predictors is when there's a vacuum of information--silence about why decisions were made the way they were," Maslach says. "Another is having to operate in conflict with your values...
...month ago, a glance at the records would have appeared to show the Harvard men’s basketball team’s Ivy League opener at Dartmouth to be a major mismatch. A month can make a big difference. With the Crimson’s 87-79 win at Long Island on December 10, it improved to 6-3 on the season. By contrast, at that time, the Big Green had lost its first six games of the season. Since then, Harvard has had some good games, but closed the non-conference season with three straight losses...