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...hall, or your Harvard room. They provide the rigorous academic atmosphere that homes and local libraries cannot recreate. For many, it is easier to accomplish more when you are surrounded and encouraged by hundreds of other hardworking peers in a world-class research institution. The “Harvard bubble?? is one of Harvard’s central scholarly benefits at any time of the year, and students should not have to forgo it during their greatest time of academic need...
Surprisingly, the Crimson’s biggest supporters may be those who are most cut off by the Harvard bubble??the Cambridge community itself...
...Similarly, the boom times of the late 1990s and 2000s—first the technology bubble, then the real estate bubble??were driven by over-leveraging and willful ignorance. Like PEDs of baseball’s elite, the acronyms of the financial world—CDOs, CDSs, LBOs, etc.—were not skills or products in and of themselves. Rather, like PEDs, they were once-exotic, unregulated tools that allowed really smart people to make a ton of money and marginally smart people to come along for the ride, eventually becoming common and insidiously far-reaching...
...swim in activities and sometimes neglect classes. The word “camp” also implies a fixed space, which quite accurately describes that few of us leave campus as frequently as we all agree would be beneficial for our health. The term “Harvard bubble?? has gained a firm place in our vocabulary for this reason...
...learning how magical numbers can be or how the dinosaurs lived. However, while, for the most part, Harvard sets the bar for the academic side of education, we have learned far less in life matters than our peers at less esteemed and admired institutions. The “Harvard Bubble?? is real, and we are insulated by it from reality. Too much coddling from the College is harmful and has been detrimental to our overall education...