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...than most. Maybe it would have been easier if I had religiously followed all that advice I got last summer and neatly mapped out a plan. But I feel like I packed more into a year that many of my classmates did, just because I figured out my path as I went along. I survived, and this fall I'm blustering right back in through the gates and looking for new rocks to overturn...
High school is two-dimensional, with just one path. Everyone who's anyone takes mostly the same classes, the same tests, does the same few marquee extracurriculars. For you, probably, there was only one goal: a top-ranked school. With admission to Harvard, you won this race. But being so good in a two-dimensional world can have a profound affect on your self-image. There was no need to choose what activities you would be involved in, because you could do all of them. No need to decide which offices you wanted to run for--the president, every time...
...find that great journalism is fulfilling in its own right. Those who go to the IOP will find, well, each other.) But most of your class will plunge into a world with dozens of concentrations, bajillions of classes, and hundreds of extracurriculars--a world where there is no right path, only personal preference. Here's where you come...
...invite you to watch "Dawson's Creek" with them or your teaching fellow puts you down in section--again. Enjoy the melodrama of these moments. Write a poem or two. If they're good, join the Advocate. If not, go back out into the wild unknown and chart your path...
...cuts on Mirrorball are drawn from McLachlan's earlier albums, and were recorded live on her spring solo tour. Some of the songs--like the love-racked Path of Thorns, from her 1991 CD, Solace--acquire a spacious, cathedral-like grandeur when performed live with her solo piano. McLachlan's canvas has always been the lovelorn and the obsessed, and her palette, the primary colors of human passions. Mirrorball chronicles her gathering skill at capturing emotional truths. "Emotions are fabulous," McLachlan explains, relaxing in a Manhattan hotel room last week. "I love them because they feed you. You learn...