Word: perfectionist
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...comes out of research and Harvard will teach you how to do that. More than that, writing is rewriting...a good writer is miserable with everything he’s done...I do feel that at Harvard you learn to work really hard. And you learn to be a perfectionist, and I think that’s come in handy more than anything else as a TV writer...
...mind a little more work than, say, a gut like Dinosaurs (Science B-57) might offer. LS1a and LS1b offer a mostly graceful blend of hard science and real-world applications that is so often missing from introductory science courses. These classes offer something that both perfectionist pre-meds and aspiring novelists can enjoy and use. Built from the ground up by a cadre of Harvard professors hailing from a swath of “science-y” disciplines, these courses integrate the aspects of biology and chemistry that you’ll actually find in the real world?...
...would only have 12 published Dickinson poems if this were the case. Instead we have nearly 2,000—some good, some not so good. I’m glad to have them.” “The eighty-odd poems that this famous perfectionist allowed to be printed over the years are ‘Elizabeth Bishop’ as a poet. This book is not,” Vendler writes. According to New, it’s important to save the work of the poet who once wrote that...
...gong show if I did. I cannot promise that I will give the “right” answer to every question or that I will be able to solve every situation that comes through my inbox. I think I have gotten far enough away from my perfectionist tendencies that got me into Harvard to admit—with humility (gasp!)—that my advice will not be perfect...
Rebecca D. O’Brien ’06 a History and Literature concentrator in Kirkland House, is the former associate managing editor of The Crimson and a recovering perfectionist. Her column “Undercovered” will appear on alternate Fridays, and will focus on the (sometimes hilarious, often tragic) disconnect between students and the Faculty at Harvard...