May 2012
7 posts
“It’s not quite love and it’s not quite community; it’s just this feeling that...”
– Marina Keegan
“We never had to choose and suddenly we’ve had to. Some of us have focused...”
– Marina Keegan
“What we have in academia, in other words, is a microcosm of the American economy...”
– William Deresiewicz
“the German Romantic idea of bildung, the upbuilding of the soul”
– William Deresiewicz
introspection is not the antithesis of collaboration
“What happens when busyness and sociability leave no room for solitude?”
– William Deresiewicz
“So there they were: one young person who had lost the capacity for solitude and...”
– William Deresiewicz
March 2012
3 posts
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
– Edward Abbey
“Our culture does not give us enough words to experience fully the sensory realm.”
– Michael Lewis
“I couldn’t believe I went straight from having a one night stand on an air...”
– …
November 2011
5 posts
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and...”
– Michelangelo Buonarotti
“Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone’s total control, and...”
– J.K.Rowling
“The University is like our congress-dysfunctional and designed for the ones who...”
“(In the U.S., half all income sent to Washington is redistributed to the...”
– Margaret Wente
“I still don’t see how Europe and even the US and the rest of the OECD are going...”
– Geoffrey Henry
October 2011
3 posts
“We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a...”
– Buckminster Fuller
“”Ms. ___, you are just so cozy for me that I can’t *stand*...”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the...”
– Henry David Thoreau
September 2011
3 posts
“As someone who currently makes a living providing that liberal arts education...”
“but don’t worry - I have a very New York-like quadruple-bolt-lock system...”
– Leigh
“Don’t believe for one second that the best teachers are at the top tier...”
May 2011
7 posts
“BEGINNING my studies, the first step pleas’d me so much,
The mere fact,...”
– WALT WHITMAN
“I was probably the last generation of Americans until the present day who could...”
– Bill Clinton
“Why “Double” Strawberry cake, you ask? Well, the cake layers are...”
“ons from random people I dont’ care about about what I’m gonna do...”
– sarah
“architecture asks us to imagine that happiness might often have an...”
– alain de botton
“If you’re worthless because one person doesn’t want to date you anymore, then...”
– Carolyn Hax
“Nature unchecked, with original energy”
– Walt Whitman
April 2011
10 posts
“Instead, he says, he’s going about leading in the old-fashioned way:...”
– on John Maeda
“I ate the Jell-O, I drank the Kool-Aid. But now I realize that what I thought...”
– John Maeda
“When life gives you pink lemons, and not a whole lot of sugar, make TJ’s...”
– Sarah
“If I can suspend disbelief when I read about Elinor Dashwood reuniting with...”
– ELEANOR BARKHORN
“Harvard is the best high school you can choose”
“interesting does not come from greatness. Interesting comes from conflict.”
– Penelope Trunk
“Also, kids know how to do what teachers assign. But they have little idea of how...”
– Penelope Trunk
“Be kind. Be engaged. Be optimistic. Be connected. Most people who say they are...”
– Penelope Trunk
“I’ve been hired to act as an interpreter for some Egyptian government...”
– Eliot
“Juri, of course I’ll make you a sandwich. To explain, sprouting your...”
– Giselle
March 2011
4 posts
“It occurs to me from time to time that one of the best reasons to live is to...”
– Emily Leonard
“Cognitive overload, poorly defined preferences and imperfect self-control can...”
– Judith Scott-Clayton
“Recently though, I’ve been told that if you don’t devote your life...”
– jinjoo hwang
“This is the city of No. It’s where my heart lives. It’s four days...”
– Katherine’s four-year old student’s paper
February 2011
10 posts
“You can’t ever really describe the feeling until you’ve stolen two cans of...”
– David Choe
“maybe you just have long arms..like a gorilla”
“Little-san, it is free for everyone!”
– Eliot to Giselle
“you can’t do anything when there’s this much white...”
“There is a support group for this. We meet every night at the bar of your...”
“Throughout history both the US government and industry have sought to exploit...”
– Iris Chang
“I know a young woman who trains cats how to pee from a toilet seat — and she...”
– Ramit Sethi
“For some the destination was America, for others it was Hong Kong, but for most...”
– Iris Chang