Word: okay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Women's Leadership Conference this past September where I met Dr. Oriol, she dispensed this advice: "At each intersection, you have to decide, `What do I want to do?' It might not look great, but that's okay. Don't be afraid to fail...
...Okay, so you forgot to list some companies on your Scantron sheet, had trouble printing out your resume or messed up the MCATs. If Oriol's example means anything, though, it's that it's not the end of the world. We're young, right? We're still at a point where we can start new things. Jia-Rui Chong '99 is a history and literature concentrator in Kirkland House. Her column appears on alternate Mondays...
Perhaps, as the 20th century draws to a close, the quest for identity is best fulfilled not by finding a coherent sense of self but by discovering that everyone else is just as dysfunctional as you are--and that it's okay...
What I am saying is that those careers aren't our only options. It really is okay to have a job instead of a career, to center one's life on the home instead of the office. Some would say this is a waste of a Harvard education--in fact, some already have. But I don't think it is a waste for the main beneficiaries of my Harvard education to be my kids. Nor do I think that those who do devote their lives to their kids, like my own parents, are failures. One of the greatest things...
...There is a principle that underlies all ofthese policies," Hutchison said, "and it is theprinciple that it is okay to succeed in America aslong as you don't succeed too much...