Many of us are concerned that the pressures on today’s students seem far more intense than those placed on previous generations. The article Time Out or Burn Out for the Next Generation was originally published in the New York Times on December 6, 2000.ĭean of Admissions and Financial Aid, Harvard CollegeĪdjunct Lecturer in Psychology, Harvard Graduate School of EducationĬollege admissions officers, especially those who admitted the parents of today’s applicants, have an unusual vantage point from which to observe changes from one generation to the next. If a student has already replied as enrolling, but has since changed their mind and would like to defer, they may contact the Admissions Office or submit the Request to Defer form on the Admitted Students Website explaining the request for a deferral as soon as possible and in any event by the end of June. After graduation, large numbers of Harvard students take time off before beginning work or graduate school. Each year, between 90 and 130 students defer their matriculation to the College, and they report their experiences to be uniformly positive.
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The Admissions Committee encourages admitted students to defer enrollment for one year to travel, pursue a special project or activity, work, or spend time in another meaningful way-provided they do not enroll in a degree-granting program at another college.ĭeferrals for two-year military or religious service are also granted. Our overall graduation rate of 98%, among the highest in the nation, is perhaps due in part to the fact that so many students take time off, before or during college.
TAKING TIME OUT FULL
We want to do everything possible to help the students we enroll make the most of their opportunities, avoiding the much reported "burnout" phenomenon that can keep them from reaching their full potential. Students admitted in the Early Action and Regular Decision rounds can choose to defer their admission by selecting the "I defer" option in their admitted student reply form.
TAKING TIME OUT HOW TO
In other words, as you are racing to keep up, you're preventing yourself from developing any innovative new ideas about how to do things quicker and more efficiently.Yes. However, when you are never "out of touch" you are not "in touch" with your own ideas, hunches, creative insights and what Steve Jobs called the whispers in your mind. We walk around with our phones strapped to our belts like gunslingers from the old west and feel just as naked without them. "That's when I do my best thinking," he told me.īut the ethic today is never to be out of touch. The CEO of Federated Stores' online division told me that when he drives to and from work he is completely out of touch, with his phone, beeper, pager turned off. Some talked about just having some quiet time. Some would leave the building and take a walk, others would exercise. Many leaders talked about taking timeout of each day for thinking. When I taught at Stanford's Executive Management Program we found that people got their best ideas when they were driving, napping, exercising and taking a shower.
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