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...what about one of the most influential alumni of all time, Rivers Cuomo ’99-’06, Weezer rocker? You could take his picture by the pool, because he’s the next big thing. Don’t feel too poorly about your mistakes??it certainly isn’t easy sifting through the sea of brilliance that is Harvard to find notable alumni. Good luck with preparing this year’s list...
...This estimable position, apparently, doesn’t secure one against the relentless trawler called YouTube: those easy, embarrassing mistakes??calling someone a ‘major league asshole’ under your breath, getting drunk at a wedding, flipping off a camera—can and will be dredged up for mass consumption (in these three cases, just because you’re the 43rd President of the United States...
...course not. But it’s also time that we stopped treating school like Las Vegas, as if what happens at college stays at college. The undergraduate years, the theory goes, are for making mistakes??hooking up with your suitemate, say, or majoring in philosophy—with limited consequences. There’s good reason for this exceptionalism: If everything that happened in college were suddenly in the public domain, students would feel less free to take risks—although it’s debatable whether getting trashed and uploading your drunken rendition...
...played a team not ranked in nation’s top 20.The Crimson held on for the victory after allowing Holy Cross within a single goal with just 85 seconds left in the game, but the late letdown—as well as a number of penalties and mental mistakes??put a damper on the otherwise successful afternoon.“That is just mental laziness,” Harvard coach Scott Anderson said of the numerous mistakes. In addition to 17 turnovers in the game’s final three quarters, the Crimson also committed eight penalties...
...perfect end product (a grade, a class ranking, the perfect paper), fueled by a fear of failure, can block the productivity and achievement that comes from engaging and persisting in the process of learning. Learning at one’s cutting edge inherently involves experimentation, fumbling, and mistakes??even failures. This is one reason it is so hard to let go of our perfectionist habits, because overcoming perfectionism means accepting our imperfection, our humanness, our permanent status as life-long learners. It is often the case that perfectionists feel they are valued by others only because...