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This February, the Task Force on General Education issued a report calling for the creation of a committee to “develop an initiative in activity-based learning.” The report suggested that an activity-based learning program could capitalize on Harvard’s flourishing extracurricular life, allowing students to forge “an intellectual link” between their academic pursuits and their endeavors outside of the classroom. Many have bristled at this promotion of activity-based learning, worried that classes would co-opt students’ extracurricular activities, transforming them into another form...
...very different personalities—one younger character getting manipulated, and the other was sort of the manipulator.' In contrast to those extremes, Cregg’s character in “Reception” tries to steer events in the play but finds this to be a difficult task. Valerie is less manipulative and more quietly well-intentioned, Cregg says. She also sees some parallels between Valerie’s mediator persona and her own. 'The play is filled with very large personalities, and Val’s sort of a more understated character, trying to hold things together...
...keys to optimizing performance is visualization. Prior to attempting a task, it can be very useful to visualize yourself succeeding. Before writing one of my columns, for instance, I visualize myself defeating all odds and accomplishing my ultimate aspiration as a humor writer: finishing my article before the deadline. By imagining myself completing this goal I am more likely to accomplish it, although admittedly these visualization sessions generally deteriorate into hour long naps where I end up visualizing baseball cards and candy bars in my dreams...
...with age," says Raphael Chan, a director of a fast-food chain in Singapore who became a first-time father at age 41. "But this was the point at which I had a child, and it was hard." Multitasking and an accelerated workflow present other challenges for the single-task-oriented male brain. And technological advances-from vibrating Blackberries to the addictive allure of high-speed Internet access at home-have made it all the harder to detach from work. Finally, when you consider the retrenchments and economic wipeouts that have set the temper of their working lives over...
...integrative courses bring together everything they have learned in a synthetic experience,” said Stavins, who is also co-chair of the task force created to design the joint-degree program. “Practical is the important word here...