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...Internet and its successor technologies will have the essential features of a massive library system, where people can roam through the electronic equivalent of book stacks with assistance from the electronic equivalent of research librarians," Rudenstine said...
...small hard-backed chair tilted dangerously on its two back legs and props his feet on the armchair in front of him. Putting aside a crystal tray holding the half-eaten fruit salad he has ordered for lunch, he sips a Diet Coke and fidgets slightly while his eyes roam from the ceiling to the reporters to the elegant furniture in his spacious Mass. Hall office...
...favors reality, by which he means something other than the corporate world. Sure, the life he describes at the re-engineered Amalgamated Potato stinks, but (news flash, Garrison) bad smells are real. And what does he offer instead? The romantic notion that life in the wild where the caribou roam is better. Well, he also invented a town where all the children are above average. If all those "drones" with salaries "in the mid five digits" he describes flee the corporate world, who will be left to pay Keillor for spinning yarns and reading poetry on public radio? The good...
...Core, we all know the ways to get around it. One can get by without taking a real literature class or an expansive history course. To get a multi-faceted education you must want it really badly. Why so badly? Because there is not enough time to leisurely roam through the spectrum of courses. We come in with a specific focus and we go out with it having been narrowed. No time to know there is an upcoming presidential election. No time to "Take Back the River." No time to take advantage of Arts First. No time...
Frustrating "only ifs" remind us how tightly budgeted our time here is. Declaring a concentration at the end of the first year, (a relatively premature time to have developed a narrow scope of interest) leaves one with little time to roam the college fields of study. Maybe I had dishonest parents or deceitful first-year advisers, but I was told to take a bit of everything--there is no rush to decide. Sure, I can take my time, maybe put off pre-med until after college and then add two more years to the already too-long trek to medical...