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...bigger. Put in the effort to help plan happy hour, plant flowers in your courtyard, or start a foosball league. The onus falls upon the current generation of students to sustain old traditions and start new ones.Not To Do:1. Don’t hole up in your bedroom. Sleep is for the weak, and work can wait another day. The joy of a House stems from the fact that there is a community at your fingertips that is infinitely more valuable than a response paper. It’s not that solitude and self-reflection isn?...
...surrounding his death, rushed to the streets to express their anger; political vultures smelled blood and went straight into a media-fueled feeding frenzy. For a moment, it looked as if Serbia was about to revert to the bad old days. It was like waking up from an uneasy sleep straight into a nightmare...
...those majoring in "informatics"--are genuinely concerned about getting lost in the multitasking blur. In an informal poll of 60 students last semester, he says, the majority expressed concerns about how plugged-in they were and "the way it takes them away from other activities, including exercise, meals and sleep." Levy's students talked about difficulties concentrating and their efforts to break away, get into the outdoors and inside their head. "Although it wasn't a scientific survey," he says, "it was the first evidence I had that people in this age group are reflecting on these questions...
...privacy or security issues, though those are real enough. It's the sheer amount of screen-sucking time they consume in lives that are already overscheduled. Being a teenager is one enormous exercise in time management. Watching my kids try to juggle school, homework, sports, music lessons and sleep, I sometimes think my life is easier than theirs. That's partly because I have some tools they lack, but it's also because I think I know an abyss when I see one. Facebook is one giant time vortex--a black hole of chatter--and for many kids...
...preparation for pelvic surgery. A patient going into that operation is usually given a mix of painkilling narcotics and nerve-quelling tranquilizers. But not Thomas. Instead she rested on a gurney, alert and calm, taking deep breaths at her hypnotherapist's instruction. Thomas counted aloud, "One hundred, deep sleep; 99, deeper sleep...