Word: offing
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Today, students here will begin the second week of reading period. It is only natural that stress levels have started to rise. All over campus, students will rub their bleary eyes and try desperately to finish term papers and problem sets before an arbitrary deadline. A few lucky ones might...
But what about after reading period? Two weeks of exams, a week of intersession (read: summer job search) and a semester of classes, clubs and term-time jobs. Recess? The only happy screaming and running we ever do is done nakedly in the snow.
Come to think of it, the very concept of recess is antithetical to Harvard. Recess, by definition, is unstructured and freewheeling. Harvard life, by contrast, is one scheduled meeting after another. We meet for class, meet for clubs, meet for lunch, meet to practice and meet to talk about our...
Our social lives consist largely of joining student organizations with rigid bylaws and mission statements. While these organizations do make use of creative energies, most require hours of menial work in rooms with poor ventilation. Recess is outside and if you don't like the rules, you can change them...
I'm not saying we should be paying $30,000 a year so we can regress back to the third grade. Still, there might be some room in our incredibly regimented lives for some unstructured pursuits. At MIT, for example, students regularly apply their engineering savvy toward benign, anonymous pranks...