I think it’s half-way inevitable that your computer suffers a major malfunction at least once during your college career. Sometimes you have to replace it, other times you have to wipe it clean. Sometimes, it’s almost dead, but not quite.
My computer died just this semester and had to get wiped. My new computer caught a virus in about 2 weeks, and I was left straggling.
There are preventative and reactive measures you can take when you computer is on the verge of dying, or is sort of dead already.
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Maybe you were like me, maybe not, but I always thought that working abroad right after graduation in a foreign country (I’m an American) would be fantastic. It’d be a thrill ride, and be totally awesome.
However, after a set of informational interviews in Shanghai, I started to realize that jump starting your career in a foreign country isn’t as easy as OCS makes it seem.
The language barrier can be a total opportunity killer.
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If you’re going to Prefrosh, GO TO OUTWIT that Sunday.
Freestyle rap, food, awesomeness. Showcasing some of Harvard’s alternative talent and the vividness of the extracurricular life on campus.
Congrats! Insert the obligatory wow, you made it through the crapshoot etc. etc. etc., now don’t choose Yale blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda.
Welcome to Surviving Harvard.
If you’re new, read through The Guides, where I’ve grouped all of my informational articles by category.
I’m a junior economics concentrator in Glorious and Fair Leverett House. I started up this community blog to better help others and myself deal with the ridiculousness that Harvard can toss at you.
Right now, the blog covers a comprehensive set of topics, ranging from the almost annoyingly pragmatic Most Commonly Overlooked Things When Choosing Classes to the somewhat more self-reflective The Negative Cult(ure) of Over-Committing. It also entreats you: Don’t Be THAT Boy or Girl: What Not To Do Amongst Other Smart People.
If you’re so inclined, more introductory-esque stuff, and if you want an answer to the “I CAN’T DECIDE!!” question…
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Hello everyone!
I hope you survived reading and finals period. I know I was driven a little crazy (in part due to blockles).
I just wanted to let you know that I’ll be studying abroad in Shanghai! Surprise!
I needed some time off from this crazy place and decided that, based on my lack of real desire to participate in this particularly blood-thirsty round of e-recruiting, I might as well explore a different country and finalize my language skills.
I’m about to ship out. I make no promises about posting (seriously, there should be enough stuff on this site already to help guide you through the second semester), but who knows? I could discover the meaning of life while staring down a chipmunk in the market.
And if you’re really bored, or whatever, go start a silly little Harvard blog of your own. And I’ll be more than happy to link you, generally. :)
I should be back to a semi, more normal posting schedule come June.
If your reading period is ridiculously easy, read this post. If not, avoid this post like the plague.
Here is my round up of the BEST (and most evil time-sucking) ways to procrastinate.
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It’s that time of the year again. Now that you’ve written your Annual Review, it’s time to bundle your thoughts together and look forward to the new year.
Chances are, you know how to make a standard list, and may or may not have accomplished them (provided that you even remember your list).
I’m not going to try to reinvent the wheel, but instead point out some new ways of writing our that set of “resolutions” and strongly suggesting resolutions that should make it to your list this year.
If you’re looking for a new take on the New Year’s Resolutions list, this is the post for you.
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I remember my prefrosh weekend. The weather sucked, and I was a sad prefrosh quad-ed in Cabot without other prefrosh roommates. The weekend was alright, nothing extraordinary. I was more tired of being rained upon than anything, but it was the freshmen concert that ended up clinching my decision. There was such vitality and a quality of pre-professionalism that I knew that Harvard was where I wanted to be.
Commentary: Brain Gain: The underground world of “neuroenhancing” drugs
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The New Yorker’s Brain Gain: The underground world of “neuroenhancing” drugs
Seriously? As an “efficiency-obsessed” Harvard student, I absolutely understand the appeal of such mental steroids. Imagine, all the wonderful/crazy/exciting/amazing things I could do if my brain could focus a little bit better, for longer periods of time, if I didn’t need sleep, if I never wearied from writing that damn response paper.
However, if you need a drug to help you keep on top of things, I feel like that’s a sign that something is amiss in your life, that you haven’t examined your priorities, that you really don’t know what you want out of life.
It’s incredibly easy as a Harvard student to just want EVERYTHING. But, that’s just a sign of not actually wanting anything.
Your thoughts?