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来看哈佛校训：告诉你如何不虚度人生
乌龙 2011-02-06 10:09:00
作为闻名于世的学府，哈佛大学培养了许多名人，他们中有33位诺贝尔奖获得者、7位美国总统
以及各行各业的职业精英。究竟是什么使哈佛成为精英的摇篮？哈佛学子接受了什么样的精神和理念？这些问题吸引着成千上万的人去探知其中的答案。哈佛图书馆墙上的20条训言似乎已经给出了答案。短短数语，引发深思，给人启迪。哈佛图书馆的二十条训言：
1.此刻打盹，你将做梦；而此刻学习，你将圆梦。
2.我荒废的今日，正是昨日殒身之人祈求的明日。
3.觉得为时已晚的时候，恰恰是最早的时候。
4.勿将今日之事拖到明日。
5.学习时的苦痛是暂时的，未学到的痛苦是终生的。
6.学习这件事，不是缺乏时间，而是缺乏努力。
7.幸福或许不排名次，但成功必排名次。
8.学习并不是人生的全部。但既然连人生的一部分——学习也无法征服，还能做什么呢？
9.请享受无法回避的痛苦。
10.只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。
11.谁也不能随随便便成功，它来自彻底的自我管理和毅力。
12.时间在流逝。
13.现在流的口水，将成为明天的眼泪。
14.狗一样地学，绅士一样地玩。
15.今天不走，明天要跑。
16.投资未来的人，是忠于现实的人。
17.受教育程度代表收入。
18.一天过完，不会再来。
19.即使现在，对手也不停地翻动书页。
20.没有艰辛，便无所获。
老师经常给学生这样的告诫：如果你想在进入社会后，在任何时候任何场合下都能得心应手并且得到应有的评价，那么你在哈佛的学习期间，就没有晒太阳的时间。在哈佛广为流传的一句格言是“忙完秋收忙秋种，学习，学习，再学习。”
人的时间和精力都是有限的，所以，要利用时间抓紧学习，而不是将所有的业余时间都用来打瞌睡.有的人会这样说：“我只是在业余时间打盹而已，业余时间干吗把自己弄得那么紧张？”爱因斯坦就曾提出：“人的差异在于业余时间。”我的一位在哈佛任教的朋友也告诉我说，只要知道一个青年怎样度过他的业余时间，就能预言出这个青年的前程怎样。
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
Does it make financial sense to become a doctor?
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/finance/1071786/
In financial speak, becoming a physician is not a home run VC investment. It's definitely not equity stock returns. Heck, it's not even regular bonds. It's more a Muni bond level investment.
The protoplasm required to be a physician would equal out to be a pretty successful businessperson or equal highly accomplished career in anything else so you have to compare apples to apples careers in success.
I finished my three year residency with nearly $150,000 in debt back in 1999. That was after studying through college, 4 years of medical school, and 3 years of residency doing 100+hour weeks and paid in residency ~$30,000 yearly for 100 hour weeks.
So, with 11 years of post high school education and work, you're $150,000 in the hole. Give that scenario to any investor and they'll run for the doors.
There is significant upfront investment in becoming a physician, but the rewards really isn't in the salary afterwards. My siblings are doing much better than I, but I take great comfort in knowing that I can take care of my parents (and others) in ways that no amount of $$$ can substitute. That said, many other medical professions can be had without becoming a physician. VERY attractive positions that be more 'financially sound' would be: pharmacists, RNP, PA, RN.
If you ever had a "good Samaritan" moment and enjoyed that inner feeling of satisfaction, then perhaps you should look into the health care profession. If you're in it for financial stability...you don't have your thinking cap on straight.
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My wife is an MD (a psychiatrist) and our closest friends are in the following specialties: nephrology, neurology, radiation oncology, general surgery, pediatrics, maxillofacial surgery, plastic surgery, anesthesiology and hematology oncology. The easy consensus among all of them is that if your primary interest is money, there are plenty of other occupations that offer much better financial rewards for a lot less work.
People who talk about specialists making the most money are, of course, correct, but that doesn't exactly end the conversation. As a threshold issue, remember that getting into plenty of residencies isn't exactly as easy as just picking a major in college. Your scores will largely determine what areas will even be an option for you.
Also remember that there are plenty of issues with different specialties besides the purely financial ones. For instance, anesthesiology, while financially rewarding (and pretty competitive to get into), isn't a very family friendly specialty. This may not matter to you now, but it probably will at some point. In general, in order to make half decent money in anesthesiology, you have to work a lot of call, including overnight call. You also tend to have very limited patient interaction, which may or may not suit your personality (the joke is that people with good interpersonal skills don't go into anesthesiology exactly because of this).
Our friend in radiation oncology is still in residency (it's a 5 year residency) but will make very good money when she's done. She'll also enjoy very consistent hours with no call. You have to keep in mind, however, that there's a TON of physics involved, which turns a lot of MD's off (although it is one of the more competitive specialties). You also have to come to terms with the fact that it's not a very cheerful profession, with a very significant percentage of your patients dying. Further, because it is such a narrow specialty, you typically do not have much of a choice when it comes to the location of your job, which affects where you can live, where your kids go to school, etc...
The friend of ours who is in hematology oncology has commented, for instance, that she just couldn't work with children even though the money is better there. It is just such an emotional and heart breaking thing to do that she found it too much for her.
The fact that a lot of medical specilaties are so demanding and taxing on family lives (even way after you finish residency) is the reason that things like dermatology are some of the most competitive specialties to get into. Dermatologists make good but not great money, with their financial rewards being nowhere near the top of the spectrum. What they do typically enjoy is decent money in a very consistent, completely call-free and mostly drama free environment.
My wife, who is about to be finally done with her residency in psychiatry, has always loved it but the fact that it's pretty family friendly has also always been a huge plus for us. There's also a lot of flexibility in that, so that psychiatrists in private practice can have some of the lowest overhead of any any other specialty, as they can limit their interaction with insurance companies. That gives you a lot of independence and frees you from a lot of headaches.
You really have to take the time to understand the implications of getting into medicine. There are plenty of rewards, both tangible and intangible ones, but there are also a lot of difficult considerations that people who get into things like engineering never have to face.
In financial speak, becoming a physician is not a home run VC investment. It's definitely not equity stock returns. Heck, it's not even regular bonds. It's more a Muni bond level investment.
The protoplasm required to be a physician would equal out to be a pretty successful businessperson or equal highly accomplished career in anything else so you have to compare apples to apples careers in success.
I finished my three year residency with nearly $150,000 in debt back in 1999. That was after studying through college, 4 years of medical school, and 3 years of residency doing 100+hour weeks and paid in residency ~$30,000 yearly for 100 hour weeks.
So, with 11 years of post high school education and work, you're $150,000 in the hole. Give that scenario to any investor and they'll run for the doors.
There is significant upfront investment in becoming a physician, but the rewards really isn't in the salary afterwards. My siblings are doing much better than I, but I take great comfort in knowing that I can take care of my parents (and others) in ways that no amount of $$$ can substitute. That said, many other medical professions can be had without becoming a physician. VERY attractive positions that be more 'financially sound' would be: pharmacists, RNP, PA, RN.
If you ever had a "good Samaritan" moment and enjoyed that inner feeling of satisfaction, then perhaps you should look into the health care profession. If you're in it for financial stability...you don't have your thinking cap on straight.
______
My wife is an MD (a psychiatrist) and our closest friends are in the following specialties: nephrology, neurology, radiation oncology, general surgery, pediatrics, maxillofacial surgery, plastic surgery, anesthesiology and hematology oncology. The easy consensus among all of them is that if your primary interest is money, there are plenty of other occupations that offer much better financial rewards for a lot less work.
People who talk about specialists making the most money are, of course, correct, but that doesn't exactly end the conversation. As a threshold issue, remember that getting into plenty of residencies isn't exactly as easy as just picking a major in college. Your scores will largely determine what areas will even be an option for you.
Also remember that there are plenty of issues with different specialties besides the purely financial ones. For instance, anesthesiology, while financially rewarding (and pretty competitive to get into), isn't a very family friendly specialty. This may not matter to you now, but it probably will at some point. In general, in order to make half decent money in anesthesiology, you have to work a lot of call, including overnight call. You also tend to have very limited patient interaction, which may or may not suit your personality (the joke is that people with good interpersonal skills don't go into anesthesiology exactly because of this).
Our friend in radiation oncology is still in residency (it's a 5 year residency) but will make very good money when she's done. She'll also enjoy very consistent hours with no call. You have to keep in mind, however, that there's a TON of physics involved, which turns a lot of MD's off (although it is one of the more competitive specialties). You also have to come to terms with the fact that it's not a very cheerful profession, with a very significant percentage of your patients dying. Further, because it is such a narrow specialty, you typically do not have much of a choice when it comes to the location of your job, which affects where you can live, where your kids go to school, etc...
The friend of ours who is in hematology oncology has commented, for instance, that she just couldn't work with children even though the money is better there. It is just such an emotional and heart breaking thing to do that she found it too much for her.
The fact that a lot of medical specilaties are so demanding and taxing on family lives (even way after you finish residency) is the reason that things like dermatology are some of the most competitive specialties to get into. Dermatologists make good but not great money, with their financial rewards being nowhere near the top of the spectrum. What they do typically enjoy is decent money in a very consistent, completely call-free and mostly drama free environment.
My wife, who is about to be finally done with her residency in psychiatry, has always loved it but the fact that it's pretty family friendly has also always been a huge plus for us. There's also a lot of flexibility in that, so that psychiatrists in private practice can have some of the lowest overhead of any any other specialty, as they can limit their interaction with insurance companies. That gives you a lot of independence and frees you from a lot of headaches.
You really have to take the time to understand the implications of getting into medicine. There are plenty of rewards, both tangible and intangible ones, but there are also a lot of difficult considerations that people who get into things like engineering never have to face.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
'Last Tango in Paris' Actress Maria Schneider Has Died
'Last Tango in Paris' Actress Maria Schneider Has Died
http://blog.movies.yahoo.com/blog/545-last-tango-in-paris-actress-maria-schneider-has-died?nc
by: Tim Grierson
[Maria Schneider, 1952-2011] Maria Schneider, 1952-2011 Dominique Charriau/WireImage When you're a young, beautiful and largely unknown actress, one of the biggest decisions you'll have to face is whether or not you're willing to appear nude in a movie that could launch your career. There's no right or wrong answer to that question -- each actress has to decide that for herself -- but in the case of Maria Schneider, who died this morning in Paris at the age of 58, she said yes. The film was "Last Tango in Paris." And it changed her life -- for better and for worse.
The French actress was only 19 when Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci cast her in the movie opposite the much more experienced and acclaimed Marlon Brando. (He was also much older: 48.) Released at the end of 1972, "Last Tango in Paris" was an instant scandal, telling the unlikely story of two strangers -- an American widower (Brando) and an engaged French woman (Schneider) -- who meet in Paris and decide to have anonymous sexual trysts with each other in an empty apartment. (How anonymous? The widower insists that they not reveal their names or anything about themselves.) Catching the film at its premiere at the New York Film Festival, New Yorker critic Pauline Kael memorably rhapsodized in her review, declaring that "Last Tango" had "altered the face of an art form ... This is a movie people will be arguing about, I think, for as long as there are movies." Sexually explicit in a way movies never were before and have only rarely been since, "Last Tango in Paris" was really about alienation and the disconnect between sex and love, but its legacy has ended up being that it was banned throughout the world and that, yes, it contains one of the most shocking love scenes of all time. We won't show you that, but the film's original trailer gives a decent hint of the movie's libidinous, artsy trappings:
Instantly, Schneider was a star, and from all accounts she handled it very badly. For one thing, she had to contend with producers and directors who just wanted her to be nude in their projects. "Marlon was shy about his body, but nudity wasn't a problem for me in those days as I thought it was beautiful," she said in 2007. Still, "I never went naked in a movie again after 'Last Tango,' even though I was offered many such roles."
She also wasn't ready for the media attention that would come with such a naked (both physically and emotionally) part. She got into drugs, overdosing a few times. She tried to kill herself at least once.
But her fame brought her to the attention of another revered Italian director, Michelangelo Antonioni, who cast her alongside another iconic American actor, Jack Nicholson, for "The Passenger." And while some of the sexual politics of "Last Tango" haven't aged well, Antonioni's 1975 film remains pretty stunning. In it, Nicholson plays an emotionally lost journalist who assumes the identity of a dead man and starts a new life, with Schneider being the young woman he meets along the way for a journey that's as much about geography as it is about mental distance from his past.
But despite landing a major role that would help people forget about "Last Tango" some, Schneider was still very uncomfortable with celebrity, although she did move to Los Angeles around that time to find work in Hollywood. In an interview with Roger Ebert after the release of "The Passenger," she talked about her feelings regarding Southern California: "It's hard to talk to the people here. They're very shallow. All they talk about is their look, their hair and their screwing. But I love to act, and here is the place to come for the movies."
Very little came from it, however, and soon she was making European movies again. But though she kept working, her career never was the same again. Perhaps that was for the best. Even four years ago, she sounded like someone still reeling from the experience of her infamous first role. For the 35th anniversary of "Last Tango," she told a writer, "It's amazing. I've made 50 films in my career and 'Last Tango' is 35 years old, but it's still the one that everyone asks me about." She didn't seem particularly pleased with that fact -- in the same interview, she badmouthed Bertolucci. "I think Bertolucci is overrated and he never really made anything after 'Last Tango' that had the same impact," she said. "He was fat and sweaty and very manipulative ... and would do certain things to get a reaction from me."
But if she was somewhat bitter about parts of her past, she was nonetheless in a better place. She had kicked drugs. She had found love, presumably with a woman she'd been with for decades. "I was very lucky," she said in 2007. "I lost many friends to drugs, but I met someone in 1980 who helped me stop. I call this person my angel and we've been together ever since. I don't say if it's a man or a woman. That's my secret garden. I like to keep it a mystery."
For an actress who learned early in the career the dangers of leaving yourself bare, it was probably a great comfort at the end of her life to actually have some mysteries to call her own.
http://blog.movies.yahoo.com/blog/545-last-tango-in-paris-actress-maria-schneider-has-died?nc
by: Tim Grierson
[Maria Schneider, 1952-2011] Maria Schneider, 1952-2011 Dominique Charriau/WireImage When you're a young, beautiful and largely unknown actress, one of the biggest decisions you'll have to face is whether or not you're willing to appear nude in a movie that could launch your career. There's no right or wrong answer to that question -- each actress has to decide that for herself -- but in the case of Maria Schneider, who died this morning in Paris at the age of 58, she said yes. The film was "Last Tango in Paris." And it changed her life -- for better and for worse.
The French actress was only 19 when Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci cast her in the movie opposite the much more experienced and acclaimed Marlon Brando. (He was also much older: 48.) Released at the end of 1972, "Last Tango in Paris" was an instant scandal, telling the unlikely story of two strangers -- an American widower (Brando) and an engaged French woman (Schneider) -- who meet in Paris and decide to have anonymous sexual trysts with each other in an empty apartment. (How anonymous? The widower insists that they not reveal their names or anything about themselves.) Catching the film at its premiere at the New York Film Festival, New Yorker critic Pauline Kael memorably rhapsodized in her review, declaring that "Last Tango" had "altered the face of an art form ... This is a movie people will be arguing about, I think, for as long as there are movies." Sexually explicit in a way movies never were before and have only rarely been since, "Last Tango in Paris" was really about alienation and the disconnect between sex and love, but its legacy has ended up being that it was banned throughout the world and that, yes, it contains one of the most shocking love scenes of all time. We won't show you that, but the film's original trailer gives a decent hint of the movie's libidinous, artsy trappings:
Instantly, Schneider was a star, and from all accounts she handled it very badly. For one thing, she had to contend with producers and directors who just wanted her to be nude in their projects. "Marlon was shy about his body, but nudity wasn't a problem for me in those days as I thought it was beautiful," she said in 2007. Still, "I never went naked in a movie again after 'Last Tango,' even though I was offered many such roles."
She also wasn't ready for the media attention that would come with such a naked (both physically and emotionally) part. She got into drugs, overdosing a few times. She tried to kill herself at least once.
But her fame brought her to the attention of another revered Italian director, Michelangelo Antonioni, who cast her alongside another iconic American actor, Jack Nicholson, for "The Passenger." And while some of the sexual politics of "Last Tango" haven't aged well, Antonioni's 1975 film remains pretty stunning. In it, Nicholson plays an emotionally lost journalist who assumes the identity of a dead man and starts a new life, with Schneider being the young woman he meets along the way for a journey that's as much about geography as it is about mental distance from his past.
But despite landing a major role that would help people forget about "Last Tango" some, Schneider was still very uncomfortable with celebrity, although she did move to Los Angeles around that time to find work in Hollywood. In an interview with Roger Ebert after the release of "The Passenger," she talked about her feelings regarding Southern California: "It's hard to talk to the people here. They're very shallow. All they talk about is their look, their hair and their screwing. But I love to act, and here is the place to come for the movies."
Very little came from it, however, and soon she was making European movies again. But though she kept working, her career never was the same again. Perhaps that was for the best. Even four years ago, she sounded like someone still reeling from the experience of her infamous first role. For the 35th anniversary of "Last Tango," she told a writer, "It's amazing. I've made 50 films in my career and 'Last Tango' is 35 years old, but it's still the one that everyone asks me about." She didn't seem particularly pleased with that fact -- in the same interview, she badmouthed Bertolucci. "I think Bertolucci is overrated and he never really made anything after 'Last Tango' that had the same impact," she said. "He was fat and sweaty and very manipulative ... and would do certain things to get a reaction from me."
But if she was somewhat bitter about parts of her past, she was nonetheless in a better place. She had kicked drugs. She had found love, presumably with a woman she'd been with for decades. "I was very lucky," she said in 2007. "I lost many friends to drugs, but I met someone in 1980 who helped me stop. I call this person my angel and we've been together ever since. I don't say if it's a man or a woman. That's my secret garden. I like to keep it a mystery."
For an actress who learned early in the career the dangers of leaving yourself bare, it was probably a great comfort at the end of her life to actually have some mysteries to call her own.
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