Word: outs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But in seeking out high achievers in academics, athletics, music and other activities, Harvard annually yields a crop of first-years ready to take on everything, not hesitating to put their names on every list at the fall activity fair.
"The one thing we do know is that some people come here having spent so much time trying to get into a place that they don't know what comes next," Nathans says. "There are a whole lot of reasons why people get burned out. It's a catch all...
"I skipped one class totally. I just sat around," he says. "I realized I just wasn't having fun. I couldn't drag myself out of bed until three in the afternoon."
"Now whenever I feel like I'm getting burned out again, I remember that after this semester and next semester I'll be graduated," he says.
So she figured out what was important to her and went ahead with her "three-pronged attack on life," which focuses on classes, relaxation and one important activity. As long as additional time-consumers don't get in the way of these three items, she can do them.