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...Some students, myself once included, absolutely hesitate to turn the page to some chapter unfamiliar to them out of fear of ‘failure?? or some dark mark on their transcript,” Malan wrote in an e-mail. “With this change to sat/unsat, CS50 hopes to free students to explore a world beyond their own comfort zone...
...allow faculty members and students to explore subjects that are not gone over in a class. They also provide an opportunity for faculty members to experiment with ideas for full-fledged courses,” said HBS Professor Arthur I. Segel, who led the “Success Through Failure?? seminar. “It was a very useful experience for me and my students...
...Leslie’s lackluster vocals and simplistic lyrics overshadow his few rhythmic intricacies. His tracks seem void of real thought, relying on a mixture of various clichés and repetitive electronic backdrops. And though “Transitions” isn’t necessarily a complete failure??his songs are listenable, indeed—it lacks substantive value, and it cheapens the notion of romance by reducing it to a set of false-sounding phrases. Leslie’s previous songwriting and producing successes have failed to translate into his newest role. He may have...
...economists disagree over whether anyone could have predicted the snowball reactions of the financial markets, they acknowledge that such large and calamitous events are relatively unstudied.Some say the scant attention paid to market meltdowns was a natural product of their infrequency, despite their outsized ramifications. The last systemic market failure??the events precipitating the Great Depression—has been studied as a historical anomaly and not as a recurring event.But at the same time, economics as a field may be predisposed against forecasting the once-in-a-century catastrophes that result from market imperfections reinforcing one another...
...impressive sports teams, written for the most prestigious college newspaper in the country, and perhaps even dressed in drag for Hasty Pudding Theatricals. But just as empowering as those victories have been our defeats. Those strangers who arrived here four years ago were not likely to have faced failure??hence they were enrolling at Harvard. During our time here, however, we have had to learn to fail the hard way. Perhaps it was a newspaper “turkey shoot” election, perhaps sports tryouts, maybe a laundry list of academic honors, or even just being turned...