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...many different ways. I had lots of tension, fear, anxiety and anger before I started and these negative things start lifting and this whole positive sense of bliss starts growing. On a set or even working with really hard-core producers, it becomes easier to work with people. Everyone starts looking like a friend instead of an enemy because of the ocean you dive into with meditation, the inner knowingness you achieve. The negativity going away helps the enjoyment and inspiration start to flow...
...Banana”), or that we even could rush such a delicate and thoughtful process if we wanted to. Neither is it to say that earth-shattering ideas and revolutionary pedagogy won’t come in their time. But where the College implicitly acknowledges that the Core isn’t providing the general education that ought to come with a Harvard degree, and none of us will see the new program before we receive that degree, the College needs to come up with a contingency plan. It’s as if the College is a train conductor...
...Ed—three according to the working “Gang of Five” report, only two required, for a total of six or four half-courses, depending on the courses—it wouldn’t be unreasonable to cut the required number of Core courses for each undergrad to five. The College could encourage professors to devise pilot courses now, with the ideals of the new curriculum in mind, and test them out as Cores. The College could even put an interim distribution requirement in place to encourage current students to get their...
...haven’t had an especially bad experience in the Core, but I get the impression that I’ve been lucky compared to some other students. We only get eight semesters here at Harvard, and most of us have already spent a few dragging ourselves through the Core. The College is taking a big step in looking at the Core’s failings and working to correct them—I only hope they can find a way to correct them while I’m still here...
...essentially says that you can take classes here about pressing social dilemmas if you want to, but that’s your own choice—as if we could actually choose to disconnect ourselves from the world in which we live. Sure, we have a required Social Analysis core, but what’s the overwhelmingly popular course in that department? Ec 10, about as consumer-oriented a class as you can get. It relies on the premise that to think logically is to think self-interestedly and implicitly argues through the design of its curriculum that the maximization...