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...voluminous writer??known for 5,000-word days—kept a journal his sophomore year, which he summed up with five words: “Weather, Work, Smoking, Liquor and Love.” He joined fellow literary types as a member of the Signet Society, praising the Dunster Street club for serving “the best luncheon in Cambridge...
Like many others, I’ve never really felt comfortable being lumped with the mass of “Harvard students.” I scoffed at that article: “That writer??s just a know-it-all and probably a loser. College is going to be so much sweeter than that.” More defensively, I also concluded that it was surely impossible to typecast a four year experience so easily...
...What happens when you get writer??s block? Where did you go for inspiration...
...here interferes both with meaningful learning and with successfully accomplishing one’s goals.Some students tell me that they are driven to succeed, but there is a distinction between having drive and being driven. Driven, perfectionistic students can be especially vulnerable to academic and personal difficulties such as writer??s block, performance and social anxiety, stress, compulsive behaviors, and depression. A relentless focus on the perfect end product (a grade, a class ranking, the perfect paper), fueled by a fear of failure, can block the productivity and achievement that comes from engaging and persisting in the process...
...fact, I went dutifully to the Coop in good time to purchase the acid-free paper and spring binders that my Government Department senior thesis writer??s handbook told me I needed in order to submit my thesis. Since this material was mandatory for all thesis writers, I assumed the expense to be moderate, 20 to 30 dollars at most. Imagine my surprise, then, when the total for my 300 sheets of prized, acid-free paper (at just over 100 pages long, my thesis required just over one 100-sheet package) and two spring binders rang...