Word: passion
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...Lawthers doesn't regret letting her son luge; she trusts his skills, and talks about how he's received a rare chance to travel the globe pursuing his passion. But she's angry that the Olympic track designers have been pushing the limits in recent years, and did not install protective walls around the tricky final turn until after the tragedy. "This should not have happened," Lawthers says. "You know that a track can injure your son. You don't think it can kill him. I so feel for his mother. She thought she was sending...
...whether or not cheating exists in the Harvard CS department, Czaplicki said he belives it is unlikely. "The majority of people taking computer science courses at Harvard are concentrating or earning a secondary field in the department," he said. "Among people who have a genuine passion for coding, the costs of cheating far outweigh its benefits...
...Passion was a universal theme, and one that Computer Science Lecturer David J. Malan ’99 stressed in his personal story of how he changed from a Government enthusiast to a Computer Science concentrator after realizing he looked forward to the Friday nights spent coding for problem sets in his Mather House dormitory room...
...wrestle with concepts that extend further beyond the subject material. Throughout my time here at school in the U.S., never once was I given information to automatically digest without truly understanding the subject matter properly. The education system in the U.S. pushes one to follow his or her passion and truly pursue areas that one has never explored before. My beliefs and thoughts have continuously been challenged to help nurture and stimulate my intellectual ability. U.S. higher education helps students express their opinions, regardless of what stance students take or contrasting argument they might make...
...kind of religious aspect to it. That’s what I very much wanted to portray as well, and that’s a religion that nobody doubts—nobody doubts love. But I think that this sort of romantic, erotic energy also goes into religious passion as well. It’s messy, it’s all messy, we’re so much messier than philosophers would like us to think...