Word: select
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...worst part for me about this decision is having to select a concentration because I would like to wander a bit through the halls of academia. "Clueless" is a word that only begins to describe me in selecting a topic area in which I will invest half of my Harvard courses taking. I love literature, art, history and languages. My issue is being uncertain about where I fit in within the departmental structure. Do I take a major I will enjoy, or one that is practical? Should I concentrate in a subject area that is easy...
...interests and people, as it has already done. Learning Chinese history for the first time this semester has opened my eyes to the world of the East and an entirely new weltanschauung. I expect that other Harvard courses will do the same. For this reason, I am hesitant to select a concentration at this point. I am not sure that the senior me will have the same interests as the first-year me. I could be hit by lighting. I could become a Democrat. Maybe my evolution won't be that extreme, but I don't plan to leave Harvard...
Harvard forces students to select early in their academic careers. Even if I do not accept advanced standing, I will have to name a subject area to which I will devote the next three years of my life. It feels a bit premature. However, I am heartened by the thought that my dilemma is one that many classes of Harvard have faced and overcome...
...Track vs. Harvard Select...
...great cheer and awe of the crowd. Some classic examples of his profound wisdom: "A is A," "Existence exists," "Freedom is the right for man to think" and--my favorite--"The good man lives, thinks, produces and respects others." He highlighted his otherwise vacuous talk with some select quotes from Rand's fiction and tossed in a few textbook points from Kant and Aquinas to make it all seem more legitimate, i.e. academic. Of course, the audience members, waving their well-thumbed copies of The Fountainhead, furiously shook their heads in hearty agreement...