Word: paper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ihaven't written a tutorial paper that was due last Monday, and I don't want to write it--not because I am a delinquent, not because I am ill, but because I don't feel as though I will be maximizing my education by writing...
...realize that the discussion he had was one which struck to the heart of the same issues of faith and ethics that I have recently been considering. The discussion is one which I well might have remembered for the rest of my life. Whether I submit this very overdue paper tomorrow, the next day or not at all is unlikely to make any indelible impressions on my memories of being 19 years old and surrounded by the richest intellectual environment I may ever encounter...
...challenge you to think of how many times you felt yourself performing a meaningless exercise such as regurgitating information for a paper. Now consider the other things that you may have done during that time and ask yourself if you really maximized your education by making the choice with your time that you did. I asked myself this question recently and decided that I have not, at all points, gotten the most out of the fleeting time I have spent here. Even if I have in general, in a life that will last an uncertain number of years...
...deny my intuition? Why do I write a paper or sit around feeling guilty about not writing it instead of not going to a Harvard museum? Because I am susceptible to peer pressure and everyone around me is working. Not handing in the paper has made me feel so guilty in the past days that I have announced the sin to almost anyone who will hear my confession. The responses have been very telling...
...really lets me mix the two worlds," says Monica B. Shah '99. "I may not be the best problem set solver and not the best paper writer, but I can do both. Sociopolitics and science are interrelated because you can't look at the modern medical system without a scientific background, but you [also] need an understanding of social issues...