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...Harvard wouldn’t have had to forgo J-term programming this year. Additionally, rather than helping undergraduates maximize their January spent off campus, Harvard resources—such as the Office of Career Services—failed to provide meaningful information about potential J-term internships with alumni until it was too late. OCS and the Harvard Alumni Association sent an email about “Leveraging the Alumni Network” in mid-December. This email should have been sent in September, not a few weeks before J-term started, when students had already made their plans...
...that it’s hard to get in, but once you get in it’s a piece of cake. Harvard is a branded education. It’s like wearing Cartier. Harvard kids go to the Harvard Club, then they’re part of the alumni fund, and they love seeing other Harvard people. It’s like having twelve Louis Vuitton steamer trunks and seeing someone else with the same thing. It’s the brand-brand-diggity brand...
...article noted that this is “ironic” because Harvard boasted to the alumni and media about the "brilliance" of those who managed the endowment. Because Harvard people are supposed to be like, all smart or whatever, you know...
Regardless of the tandem’s professional prospects, both Akpan and Nyamekye represent the success of Harvard’s men’s soccer program over the past few years. After only having three Crimson alumni selected to the MLS ranks during the league’s first 13 years, Harvard has now had three players selected in the last two years with the potential for more in the future given the abundance of young talent remaining on the roster...
...even the skeptics are slow to write off financial education completely. More than anything, they say, we need to rigorously study the financial decisions of alumni of programs like Ariel and Aflatoun and compare them with those of peers who didn't get the same sort of education. "Until you have experimental evidence, it's all a little speculative," says Michael Sherraden, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis who is conducting a seven-year, randomized, controlled study on whether giving children bank accounts inculcates the habit of saving - a program already being tried on a large scale...