Word: scatteration
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...have already completed the most important task for post-Harvard life--registering for my.harvard and a post.harvard e-mail forwarding address. I became addicted to e-mail during first-year week and can not now imagine keeping in touch with my friends without e-mail, especially since they will scatter to all corners of the globe come June 8. One of my roommates is going to India, the other is staying here. I will head to Washington, D.C. One of my best friends heads to Australia, while another does not know where she will be. It could be anywhere...
Some migrations are forced at gunpoint. Others are set in motion by the global economy. Money is dynamite, and it can scatter people better than mortar fire. The world is well into the second Industrial Revolution, in which the developed nations have gone dotcom and service. Smokestack industry and light manufacturing have moved to the Third World, and farmers have been displaced by the transformation of family agriculture into corporate agribusiness. As workers everywhere have moved off somewhere else, looking for the headwaters of the global-money flows, oversize cities have exploded. Landless Philippine farmers pack into Manila, jobless Moroccans...
...crazy on a varnished oak floor, springing 1,024 mousetraps. Or 1,024 butterflies fluttering organically round a Japanese garden where plants sway gently in a breeze you can almost feel on your cheek. It's like watching your first Pixar movie, except you're the director--making butterflies scatter as you move the camera forward...
While other Houses scatter their entering classes into isolating entryways, the sophomore tower brings its residents together...
Finney says she expects students graduating from the program to scatter in many different areas dealing with economic development of developing countries...