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...listening for the background is not something that we do very well. In fact, we tend to do everything in our power to increase the amount of background noise in our lives. We listen to music on headphones as we walk to class; we read as we eat meals; and we talk on the cell phone as we drive to work, sipping scalding hot coffee all the while—this, as it happens, is just plain dangerous. I’m as much a culprit as the next guy—right now, I’m drinking...
...against the social lifestyle. But an active social life and a reflective mental life are not mutually exclusive. The problem is not only that we’re rarely alone. It’s also that when we are alone, we tend to multitask our lives into insignificance. For example, no one would go to the opera and bring a book to read during the performance. Even if your mind wanders, you are expected to direct your full attention to the action. Why don’t we commit the same level of attention to recorded music, or food? Seems...
...certainly caused us to pause,” she said, “to quickly do an assessment and say ‘how do we feel about everything?’ It’s a couple of thousand dollars a month, but the way we tend to look at it is, are we getting something here that we couldn’t readily do for ourselves on the same amount of money...
...step onto the red-and-blue trolley car, Ann, our guide, begins to whet our appetites. Between the required recitations of chocolate factoids, the former school-bus driver jokes with passengers in a grandmotherly fashion and regales us with descriptions of her favorite chocolate concoctions. The statistics and dates tend to slide from my mind, replaced by thoughts of Ann’s homemade chocolate ice cream and other wholesome goodies...
Still no one has contacted Room 13. Fletcher and Stephanopoulos tell me how nice it is to have another counselor to talk with during down time. “When you’re in such a small space with only one person for so long, you tend to talk to them a lot,” co-director Alexandra N. Yurkovic ’04 says. While the pair of counselors is good for leisure time, its main purpose is for a support system. “One reason that we counsel in pairs is that it?...