Mitchell Tsai

Drew Faust (president), Michael Smith (Dean FAS), & John Smith (Professor Engineering) talked about the recent Harvard cheating scandal, subsequent e-mail search scandal (Why did Harvard administration not "ask" the deans for permission to look at their e-mails? duh...), rising cost of college (Harvard's $40,000 "financial aid" initiative & the 2007 "middle class" initiative - where families under $200,000/yr income pay less), and collaborative education. http://nytimes.com/2007... - Mitchell Tsai

Class of 1988 Survey. (1) Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In" was supported more by women in $500,000+ income bracket than women in <$150,000 income bracket (Median income $200,000-350,000). http://newsfeed.time.com/2013... (2) $150,000/yr income was "tipping point" between people have midlife crises & being satisfied with their lives & careers. (3) 49% believe in God (4) Most common house size 28% was <2,000 sq ft. Very poor questions (like the ones in my own class of 1986). Most years there's a lot more interesting stuff (e.g. what % of men-women income differential is due to more/less time spent on career, or kids (how many, when first one), what factors brought most happiness in life so far, how have political views changed/stayed the same, what percentage have become housewives/househusbands, etc...) - Mitchell Tsai

INTERSECTIONS: OUR FUTURE LIVES AND PUBLIC POLICY (Tue May 28 9:00–10:30 am, Science Center B) A panel discussion and audience dialogue will look at how public programs, especially Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, as well as social and technological changes, have affected and will affect our lives and the lives of our children and grandchildren. - Mitchell Tsai

QUINTESSENCE ’63: PART III (Wed May 29 3:00–4:00 pm, Sanders) (2) Is Money Obsolete?—How to Think About Inflation, Debt, and Federal Policy (3) What Does Environmental Protection Protect?—Defining ‘Environment’ in Environmental Politics and Policy (4) The Future of Medicine: Integrative Medicine and the Healing of the Whole Person - Mitchell Tsai

It is unfortunate that most parents have not been trained in how to deal with trauma, either in their own lives, or in how to teach their children how to deal with trauma. Trauma is a multi-level situation that is both emotional, social, immediate, [and] future projected, and must be dealt with in a way that assists the child to move through it. - Mitchell Tsai

...life in a society that is moving towards social sustainability will be changed; it will be changed in the courts in tort law, it will be changed in the deliberateness of how to raise children to think constructively about negative thoughts and how to bring peace to their thinking. Family dynamics and the work of parents will change tremendously. It will not change radically for couples that choose not to have children, but for couples that choose to have children, their roles as parents will change immensely. - Mitchell Tsai

Core Values of the human species: (1) Whether you are Japanese or a South Pacific Islander or an American, you have always sought a better way of life, a higher quality of life. You have not been satisfied to exist [with] your status quo of living in poverty, or living in a diminished social status, economic status or political status; you always want to have a better quality of life. - Mitchell Tsai

...because [people] are so invested in material culture and the objectification of their lives, they have begun with the material sustainability before they begin with social sustainability. It will only be after social sustainability becomes enculturated in most cultures that they will truly begin to see the possibilities of spiritual sustainability. - Mitchell Tsai