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...Holinger says that he devotes a lot of time in this course to focusing on the students??€™ own work and discussing the process behind writing a novel...
...Holinger adds that while the Extension School officially caps its creative writing courses at 15 students, he tends to admit more than that “because life intervenes, and students??€™ lives change: they move away unexpectedly, they change jobs, they have a baby—whatever...
...many cases, work fanaticism is either an avoidance or cultivation of inadequacies in other, less structured, domains. Although students??€™ original dedication to work was likely based on an innate love of algebra, it is possible that this interest was also motivated by a somewhat diminished temptation for the frolics of youth. A highly scientific straw poll of the first 20 people I recognized in Quincy revealed that only four felt they were popular at the age of 12 to 14; past social reclusion is not a universalistic trend, but it does seem to be prevalent...
...Reward arrived with our Harvard acceptance letters, and salvation was granted in the opportunity to join a campus of fellow one-time social outcasts. But, if the palpability of students??€™ social abilities is less obvious, the unrelenting drive to work persists and automatically demands limited social interactions...
...have a dire need to develop the other aspects of a well-rounded life. Personally motivated pursuits—long conversations with friends, reading for pleasure, thought driven by curiosity and not course demands—are crucial aspects of life notably underemphasized on the Harvard campus. Given students??€™ unhappiness with their highly work-oriented lives, it seems obvious that much can be gained from the imposed abandonment of work for five weeks next January. Hopefully, this will give students the space to reconsider their middle-school habits and dabble in the other forums of life...