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...expectations game has always been a difficult one for Harvard and its students to win. A name semantically fused with the word ‘superlative?? (in phrases like “the Harvard of JavaScript Training”) makes it difficult to step around this predefined assumption. So prospective students come to silently accept the assumption that Harvard is life’s deus ex machina, and they themselves are enshrined acolytes of this superhuman community. Harvard ceases to be a mere institution and becomes a destiny. And destiny is a difficult thing to keep in perspective...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Clinging to Utopia | 4/4/2008 | See Source »

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