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Even if I could defy the laws of physics and participate in every Harvard extracurricular, I wouldn't want to, because it would mean straying from the extracurricular niche I had found and loved after months of wandering. It would mean denying the value of having a number...
Although I enjoyed editing children’s books and helping run Stories, the emails that I received from Arts-l bothered me constantly. For months I debated fully returning to 14 Plympton Street, until the Georges Conference made me realize that if I had become bored...
Because the activities and interests I found came with a complete set of memories that I had only to reframe and reshape in order to treasure, I didn’t need to conform to Harvard’s culture of shopping and buying. There was no need to...
Even outside of Harvard, it is unnecessary to chase memories that are attached to buildings and booze cruises. According to Psychology Professor Daniel T. Gilbert, Americans don’t need to long for places associated with their memories, because those places are everywhere. With every corporate coffee shop that...
Models, by design, are simplifications with clearly false assumptions. But the success of models lies in their ability to rationalize and often rightly predict the behavior of more complex real systems. Confused applications of the uncertainty principle notwithstanding, the author’s disdain for the “data...