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...crazy." There wasn't a whole lot of depth to that. Davilman: Those were their submissions. They were like, "Here is what was wrong with her: this and this and this and this." And you get to the end and there's still no acceptance of responsibility or any self-awareness...
...formatting requirements, according to Assistant Dean of Harvard College Courtney B. Lamberth, whose office had a substantial role in preparing the report. “Now we are in an active review period where we are seeking input from students, faculty, and staff to ensure that the self-study accurately reflects the community’s experience,” Dean Lamberth wrote in an e-mail after the meeting. One concern raised by student representatives at Wednesday’s meeting was whether the report—which makes no mention of social organizations like final clubs and sororities?...
...nuance, Facebook pressures us to define our relationships and display the results for all to see. Yet relationships, like people, do not fit neatly into predefined categories. The premium that Facebook places on categorization has only exacerbated our societal obsession with affixing arbitrary labels to relationships and calculating our self-worth accordingly. For many women, “boyfriends” serve as status symbols, offering definitive proof of one’s capability to find a mate and achieve monogamous bliss; failure to assign that label can result in the abandonment of a healthy relationship for more...
...place like Harvard, where the pressure to perform can seem overpowering, it is easy to feel alone. Every day, we, like millions of other college students around the country, encounter challenges to our sense of self esteem and peace of mind, and we must find ways to overcome these obstacles. Psychological research consistently tells us that one of the best ways to work through such difficulties is to share them—to talk it over with a friend or counselor or to simply ask for help when we feel overwhelmed...
...This, however, is where the real challenge arises. Whenever or wherever it strikes, emotional distress has an uncanny ability to make us feel isolated, inadequate, and somehow weaker than other people. Combine this feeling with the emphasis on self-sufficiency that is so common among Harvard students, and you have a recipe for silent suffering: not only do we feel like we have no recourse for help, but we feel ashamed to need that help in the first place...