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...tardiness I can recall took place one otherwise clear and sunny morning in seventh grade. The school bus was pulling away, flashing its yellow backside as it lumbered over the hill a few blocks from my house. Though it had clearly come and was already leaving, I chased in pursuit, and the kindly driver took pity on me and put the behemoth of a vehicle in reverse, all the way to the bottom of the hill...
...sometimes seem like too abstract of a concept in the often quantitative academic environment of Harvard. In reality, however, the creation of art is simply another form of understanding and thinking. “Art-making=Risk-taking” celebrates a new direction in the pursuit of knowledge at Harvard...
...educated person should know. Officially, Harvard will not even broach the topic of whether specific information is necessary for education, let alone declare in what way excellence comes from academic study. In general, the language of this report centers on a rhetoric of preparation, not a rhetoric of common pursuit with one’s fellow students...
...will tolerate but remain uncomfortable with an approach that emphasizes interdepenence, since collaborative efforts have as their logical prerequisite a common understanding or goal. Prefrosh and students are alike in this respect in that however long students remain on campus, a community of learning never coalesces around a shared pursuit...
...exhibiting her work. Beattie commends this quality, noting that it speaks to Vu’s intense, personal engagement with her art. “[Vi is] not terribly moved by exhibition. She’s looking for a certain kind of standard… a more personal pursuit of something truly good.” Vu, Beattie says, is not looking for approbation from a larger community, but rather a sense of personal self-satisfaction, a more introspective and, perhaps, more genuine motivation...