Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read in your survey on happiness (Scrutiny, Feb. 3) that some Harvard undergraduates may be overworked and miserable. Having been there myself (the misery part, not the overwork), I have a few pearls of wisdom to cast before the community...
Maybe I'm being childishly idealistic, but I do think it's possible to enjoy spring break with the wisdom of a 21-year-old and the blind enthusiasm of an 11-year-old. If, for example, you're determined to immerse yourself alone in some tiny village in England and everything goes as planned, well, good for you. If you end up missing Stonehenge because you met a cute and friendly singer in the Din and Tonics at some pub, enjoy the delightful randomness of what happened as opposed to mourning the irreversibility of what didn't. Trying...
...Maybe I'm being childishly idealistic, but I do think it's possible to enjoy spring break with the wisdom of a 21-year-old and the blind enthusiasm of an 11-year-old. If, for example, you're determined to immerse yourself alone in some tiny village in England and everything goes as planned, well, good for you. If you end up missing Stonehenge because you met a cute and friendly singer in the Din and Tonics at some pub, enjoy the delightful randomness of what happened as opposed to mourning the irreversibility of what didn't. Trying...
...back into their reality, into an annoying self-consciousness. Consider this silly offering from an otherwise tantalizing "Atlantic Crossing:" "God knows, we need what footholds we can find on the glass mountain of our existence." It's rather demeaning when authors--or anyone for that matter--thump their superior wisdom at the rest...
...Target number three brings us back to the lecture hall. When properly used, lecture halls can be the ultimate source of wisdom and learning...