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About a year ago, I first heard the notion of wirelessly broadcasting music from an iPod to an audio system, in essence turning the iPod itself into a remote control. This concept was a response to the various competing remote controls for iPod that never quite got beyond Play, Pause and the forward and backward skipping of tracks. Instead of devising some weird, wild way to recreate the iPod interface, a wireless music streamer simply uses...
Step two to overcoming procrastination is to replace “finish it” with “begin it.” Taking a step at a time will make you feel less overwhelmed. Also, throw away any notion of perfectionism. It’s okay to be human—focus on getting things done instead of making things perfect. Thirdly, dispel the notion that doing everything at the last minute is good, even if you feel that you’re able to write or work best under time pressure. Working on the wire is stressful...
...exams, optional sections, taped lectures, and the possibility of submitting assignments online, could fulfill almost all of Harvard’s official requirements from Istanbul or Azerbaijan just as well as they could while never leaving his single in the Mather tower. What do we make of our notion of “university” when we have an institution whose institutional functions are no longer geographically localized? There’s no question that there’s an enormous benefit to being on campus—it allows students to profit from the incredible resources of their...
...certify their commitment to each other. Then the Court would be sticking to the principle that guided its original decision that cleared the way for gay marriage in the first place, the same tenet that led the U.S. Supreme Court to unanimously decriminalize interracial unions forty years ago: the notion that marriage is "one of the basic civil rights." A law that blatantly denies that right and one that essentially affirms such laws elsewhere, are equally unjust...
From: Isis President Alissa M. Gordon ’06 Subject: [Isis] Punches, and Punching, and Trips Date: Mon Oct 17 01:49:30 EDT 2005 My dearest Isis, I’m so sorry for waiting so long to send out this email addressing the whole notion of trips during punch season hosted and funded by Isis, but we’ve only just fully confirmed the plan and settled logistics...