Word: enjoyability
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...used to wake up on Sunday morning to ESPN's pre-game football show. When this ended, I would turn to Fox's pre-game and then enjoy the day's double-header. This used to be a Sunday ritual. Since my arrival at Harvard, I have not managed to fit in one game in its entirety into my schedule...
...know where my career goes from here. But at least I don't spend my free time stressing over it. Unlike many people at Harvard, Folk and Myth concentrators don't stress over issues of potential success. We take things in stride. We know how to enjoy what we study--which is something a lot of other people at this school should learn. Which leads me to discuss an issue of great importance: the Harvard preoccupation with That Which is Serious and Profitable...
...frustration with the second-tier treatment of Folk and Myth as a concentration reflects greater trouble in the mind of the average Harvard College student. But ultimately, for most of Harvard, "I enjoy what I study" does not outweigh "it's useful for the future...
...Folk and Myth, life is good. Six-person seminars where we don't try to kill each other. First-name basis with all the professors. Department happy hours. An honors-only concentration. And the best part about it is that I enjoy what I do. Success comes a lot easier when you enjoy what you're doing...
...flaky. First of all, it makes for a great conversation topic in interviews. As a department, it's also small and intimate, and as a study, it's actually fun. And as for a future career? It's doesn't matter what you concentrate in, so long as you enjoy...