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Most students endure Harvard classes so that they can work one day. Luis Alberto endures his Harvard work so that he can study here. His job as a dining hall employee at Kirkland and Eliot House allows him to study at the extension only $40 dollars a semester and pursue his principal passion--estudiar, to study...
...Alberto has balanced his financial needs with his desire for an education ever since he came to Boston from El Salvador 14 years ago. He came during the throes of a civil war to visit his sister. "I wasn't sure I was going to stay, but I knew there was that chance. It was a new world. The people weren't amigos. You'd talk to them, and they wouldn't answer." He worked to a high school diploma at Arrow High School in Brookline while washing dishes in Jamaica Plain. He then worked at the Newbury College dining...
...Alberto speaks English proficiently but prefers Spanish. At Kirkland, he wears the standard dining hall uniform--black shoes, black pants and apron over a standard-issue maroon polo. His hat covers his black curly hair. These curls and his boyish grin belie his actual...
...Alberto deems American rock music acceptable when there is no sexual tension between a couple. With a large group from Kirkland, it would suffice, he suggested. For dancing with a partner, though, it is a poor "What are you going to talk about? There's so much noise," he declared. Salsa is his favorite rhythm. "There are so many pasos (steps). Merengue is only one rhythm. But with salsa, you can dance to the front, to the side, or back. You can dar muchas vueltas (twirl around and around...
...Where Alberto finds time to go dancing is unclear. In a frantic day at Harvard, he lays out desserts at Kirkland and races to the connecting hallway. From there he pushes a stack of plates to the Eliot dining hall. Then, he starts cleaning, or acting on someoneis request, or issuing orders himself. One Saturday, Luis declared, "Today, I'm the general manger." On Saturdays and Sundays, the managers come in only for five minutes or so, to make the payroll. "It's hard, because I have to do my job, and also tell other people what they should...