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...their Harvard experiences, which will differ in multiple ways from those of their peers. These students must be invited to join communities where others share their goals and their experiences. We want to hold on to the students’ hearts and minds, to enable them to thrive rather than merely survive in this wonderful community. Other universities—including University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Boston College—recognize the challenges these students encounter. Rather than leaving the students to sink or swim, they provide a host of options similar...
...those moments, this place becomes more than bricks and coursepacks but rather something that is only tangible in the shared experiences. The Asian tourists posing for pictures in front of your entryway door or snapping pictures of your flabby pale self running Primal Scream, the professor who is interviewed on TV as an expert although you fell asleep in half his lectures, or the President of Mongolia’s security detail pushes you aside in the yard so the President’s unwashed hand can touch John’s unwashed bronze shoe. From the shared experiences like...
...realization that we are not the culmination of history but rather a midpoint in the institution’s grand goal of apparently purchasing all the land in Massachusetts is what makes the idea of Harvard as Harvard unsettling. It begs us to question what our use or purpose is because, in the face of 5,000 years, earning power or money here and now seems rather pointless...
...Knowledge that passed in whispers and parchment from generation to generation—incomplete only where it was neglected long enough for everyone who knew it to die off. The goal of a liberal arts education isn’t to get a sweet job from e-recruiting, but rather to teach each generation to be a bridge that passes the insights of humanity onto the next...
...HOMEAfter college, Brown made what seemed to be a peculiar move—she enrolled in the University of California Los Angeles Business School.When asked about her decision, Brown said, “My parents, who were both lawyers, always encouraged me to think of banjo as an avocation rather than a vocation.” After earning her MBA, Brown embarked on a two-year stint with the investment bank Smith Barney in the public finance division of their San Francisco office. But she could not keep her mind away from music and the banjo. Eventually, Brown said...