Word: working
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Noguera is the author of the book The Imperatives of Power: Political Change and the Social Basis of Regime Support in Grenada (1997), an offshoot from his doctoral work...
...common room and shared a bunch of ideas about what college was supposed to be, about where they were from and what they thought was really important, but the minute placement tests came along, let alone classes and extracurriculars, everyone was holed up in their room, hard at work or hard at play, and the great intellectual college conversations you had dreamed of became the thing of nostalgia and viewbooks...
...that has gone unnoticed and unmentioned. On other campuses, people leave plays, concerts and especially speeches charged up, ready to fight out their beliefs and talk about how they felt challenged or inspired. Here, people mumble, "yeah, that was good," before they turn back to thoughts on how much work there is left to do tonight...
...leaders are often Harvard's pride and those students most easily confused with intellectuals. They found groups, they take on massive projects, they organize and coordinate large student activities from the Hasty Pudding to Project HEALTH to the IOP. They work long hours, put in incredible amounts of effort and make important changes in the quality of life for Harvard students and the surrounding communities, but leadership alone does not make an intellectual. These leaders could enthusiastically talk you under the table with plans for new improvements and new programs but are just as unlikely to know why it matters...
Which brings us to the next category: the hard workers, probably the most deeply anti-intellectual group at Harvard. Some work hard in their classes and can be found at all hours at computer terminals or in the bio labs, and some work hard at not working: scheduling the perfect weekend, planning the cheapest way to hit Paris and Acapulco during reading period or beating the next level on the newest Nintendo game. These people are focused and do the work that gets the grade--or at least gets them by--but ask for their thoughts and their eyes glaze...