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...alma mater should not define us. The name Harvard creates unrealistic expectations in those we meet and in ourselves. I used to get so nervous when non-Harvard people I would meet expected me to have an almost supernatural wisdom or intelligence. As Conan O’Brien ’85 lamented in his 2000 Harvard Commencement address...
...dealing with one of your own. In Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class, Douthat has penned a scathing look at the culture of the “meritocratic elite” he believes pervades the modern academy—and not the least, his alma mater...
...ALMA MATTERS...
...Mallozzi end up becoming a TF at her alma mater? Her answer is characteristically honest: she started in 1997 for the film-editing resources Harvard could offer her, but has remained at the College because her students have helped her to discover “something I didn’t know when I started…[that teaching would] become this second passion.” But, of course, she needs her creature comforts, just like anybody else: “And [teaching’s] handy—it gives you health insurance and it pays the rent...
...after watching Harvard’s breathtakingly implausible 35-34 comeback over his future alma mater this past September, he promised himself that he would join the team upon matriculation, even going so far as to call up Bears head coach Phil Estes...