Word: thrillingly
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Colleagues say Kirby relishes brushing up on the latest intellectual issues across all fields. Responsible for approving all junior faculty appointments and advising the president on all tenure cases, Kirby says the capacity to help dictate the direction of a discipline through new appointments “is a thrill in itself...
Find out what gives you goose bumps or chills and follow it through, allowing enough space to divert and reformulate when the vicissitudes of life get complex. If many things give you a thrill, of course, you will need to do some winnowing (here pragmatic concerns weigh far more heavily than they did when I graduated). I remember a professor at Berkeley poking his head in the TA room door saying “Anyone want a job at Yale?” Things are rather tighter now. My own research explores well-being across the life-span...
...minute that Carnegie [Hall] called me to see if I was interested in a position there, I remember a thrill that went through me,” says Golan. “It seemed like a wonderful circling back of my personal interests...
...Massachusetts native, who grew up sailing and skiing, is a true outdoorsman. “I absolutely love the feeling when you lose control just a little too much and keep on going faster and faster,” he says. But surprisingly, he rejects the label of thrill-seeker: “Never do anything that falls on the wild [side],” he declares. And roommate Daniel R. Fish ’03 corroborates that Noonan doesn’t keep the most exciting of schedules: “[You’ll] find him Sunday night...
...older. Will our generation of Harvardians retain its slacker ways and persist in its procrastinatory habits? Will little Johnny’s birthday party be organized at the last minute for lack of other motivating interest? Will office presentations be thrown together at lunch and winged just for the thrill of it? Will an all-nighter be necessary to finish that Supreme Court decision...