Word: stressful
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Likewise, they already have one foot out the door, poised to abandon the temperamental New England weather, overcrowded Core courses, the occasional typically Harvardian ego and the stress of work in general...
...terms of business and financial success, the average graduate has a net worth of $831,000 and reports high levels of both career satisfaction and stress. Thirty-six percent say they have had a mid-life crisis. On average, class members work between 46 and 60 hours per week...
Much as the Depression bequeathed to our parents a reflexive economic insecurity, so too the late 1960s left many of us with a permanent sense of how violently our country's social fabric could unravel under stress. Though with time the healing would come, it has never quite wiped away the memory of our classmates' blood on the steps of University Hall...
...fundamental contribution, if there is going to be one in the end, will have been to shape the internal life of Harvard College so that it fosters a certain attitude toward race," Epps says. "I believe in racial integration and inclusiveness and a stress on academic achievement...
...pathology of depression is deceptively simple. The containment of severe stress--the bottling up of one's problems without communicating them to others--contributes to a chemical imbalance that impairs one's ability to function normally and induces a feeling of despair and hopelessness. If unrelieved by talk, therapy or medical treatment, the chemical imbalance induces a spiral of decline, which leads ultimately to utter paralysis and self-destruction. Admiral Boorda may have been particularly susceptible. Throughout his adult life--more than 30 years of challenge in peace and war--his ethic toward problem solving was that of the solitary...