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With papers to write, sports to play, and meetings to conduct, mental health inevitably gets brushed aside in the full calendar of a Harvard student’s life. Even for those students who understand the importance of mental health issues, taking care of one’s mental health requires time and energy that is hard to schedule in between sections and summer job applications. However, with 45 percent of college students reporting in a survey conducted by the American College Health Association that they have felt so depressed at some point during college as to be unable...
...recent column, “Payback’s a Bitch” (Apr. 4)–after all, words that insult any group of people are unattractive. But her analysis of groups like HUWIB (Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business) is less valid because she fails to fully understand the need for their existence. I’m not sure that a women’s group inherently serves to “suggest an underlying negativity against the other sex,” rather than to create a forum in which women can come together as a community...
...This question may be at the heart of the difference between great achievement and unproductive perfectionism. Certainly, many of our greatest advances in society have been accomplished while striving to perfect ourselves. Great achievers, like perfectionists, want to do and be better. But unlike perfectionists, great achievers understand that making mistakes and risking failure are important, even necessary, parts of the process of striving for excellence. If we are to support student’s academic and personal success, then we must also encourage students to embrace their imperfections, to take risks in their pursuit of excellence, and to welcome...
...honor them. Similarly, it would be unfair to the students of other faiths in attendance to claim they celebrated Holi in order to re-enact Hindu myths. Even for many Hindus, throwing colors at Holi has little connection to religious figures, and instead represents the coming of spring. We understand that covering religious events is challenging, and we would gladly comment on future captions or articles in order to achieve factual accuracy and broaden understanding of our religion. We appreciate your continuing sensitivity to the concerns of cultural and religious groups. MIHIR GUPTA ’10 March...
...never really understand each other if we aren’t willing to speak our minds. One can observe how a person acts and how he approaches life; however, one can gain a much clearer picture of who that person is by hearing his story from his own mouth...