Word: brightest
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...bursting of the housing bubble so soon after the tech-stock wreck was supposed to show the excess and folly of the financial-services industry. Many predicted a massive shift in workers away from dollar-crunching into the more real parts of the economy. The best and the brightest would no longer head straight to Wall Street. (See 10 perfect jobs for the recession...
...despite the kidding here, the best and the brightest,” Lauer said, adding that the class had much of their lives before them. “You are also the object of my enormous jealousy...
...would deny that Harvard is a pretty darn cerebral place. As we’re so often reminded, it’s America’s oldest college, home to Nobel-prize winning faculty and students who are the country’s best and brightest. In thinking about my past four years here, then, it strikes me as a bit odd that they seem altogether less academic than my high school years. Don’t get me wrong—I’ve taken Ec10 and read Milton—but the lessons that I learned from...
...Turns out, Harvard is a crucible: We throw 1,600 of the world’s brightest, most dedicated, least sleep-dependent young adults together, then crank up the competitive heat, and the impurities burn off. You have to figure out the few things worth holding on to, while all the rest—the interests you thought were callings, the hobbies you thought were passions—fizzles away. It’s the Harvard way of saying you can’t do it all: Almost no matter what, someone is already doing it better than...
...Adams House Committee Co-Chair Amol K. Jain ’10 said that Harvard students are often told they are the best and brightest. “If that’s true,” he said, “[Administrators] should really be asking us, including...