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...take on jobs like directing and producing that at other universities would be afterthoughts for professionals. It would be easier, yes, but less enriching if Harvard worked that way. If you love it, if you’re focused and energetic and talented and tireless, then there is no better feeling than the one you get just before the lights come up on opening night. But I wasn’t any of those things, which I realized in the spring of my sophomore year. It was terrifying, actually. When I was no longer funneling all of my energy into...
Those of us who passed through the Dexter Gate four years ago “to grow in wisdom” would not have recognized those of us who depart today “to better serve [our] kind.” And more than any specific concentration or class, paper or professor, there is one lesson at the core of our transformation. As obvious as it sounds, Harvard has taught us to succeed. There is no need revisit the impossible odds associated with gaining admission to this college—such fortune should humble us. We have been taught...
...tend to earn more than shorter men. Other things being equal, an inch of height is worth nearly $800 a year in salary. But that may simply tell us about the stereotypes of what corporate boards think a CEO should look like and not that taller men are better leaders. Some of the most powerful leaders in history, such as Napoleon, Stalin, and Deng Hsiao Ping were little over five feet tall...
...demonstrated the interaction between nature and nurture. A group of employers were asked to hire workers who had been ranked by their looks. If the employers saw only the resumes, beauty had no impact on hiring. Surprisingly, however, when telephone interviews were included in the process, beautiful people did better even though unseen by the employers. A lifetime of social reinforcement based on their genetic looks may have encoded into their voice patterns a tone of confidence that could be projected over the phone. Nature and nurture became thoroughly intertwined...
...made a very sensible change this year by finally requiring students to complete their evaluations in order to view their grades promptly after examination period. Again, encouraging student participation is key to making the Q Guide effective, but further improvements such as creating a more accurate rating system and better integrating the Q Guide with the my.harvard.edu course shopping tool are necessary for the Q Guide to be truly useful for students.At several points in the year, University Hall raised ire among the student body by putting forth good ideas and then failing to back them up. Just months after...