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...hindsight, the fact that I went to a school where I was treated like an adult at 16, worked for a year, and traveled the world before I came to Harvard was terrible preparation,” he said.“I got a little too addicted to being grown...
Janie said she’s ready to come back to school, but that isn’t her decision to make...
...learned a lot not just about the science of [chronobiology], but also, if you will, the business end of it—of how to actually optimize your experiments so that you get the most amount done,” said Low, who is considering business school after graduation...
Ironically, the challenge to this position is anything but new. It goes back to the German historical school of famed authors like Arnold Toynbee and Joseph A. Schumpeter. As John Maynard Keynes himself wrote in the preface to his masterpiece, “The difficulty lies, not in new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.” Fully determined models, for ash clouds or financial markets, may be resilient, but they are intrinsically incomplete, for they account for neither...
...long as he’s in power. You know, we can’t be ruled entirely by middle-aged white men who haven’t read a book since they’ve left high school. Art is not just entertainment—it’s also the best tool to understand life. And so if someone who has never read a book since they’ve left high school, or a poem or a play, I wonder, where do they get their vision? Where do they get their understanding of the other? Where...