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Answering these questions has been difficult because, unlike the bulk of my Kennedy School classmates??some of whom are younger than me by four decades—I did not come to KSG to burnish existing skills to do my current job better, nor to learn new skills in order to break from the past and embark on a new career...
...seniors will need resolve, because the gift committee resorts to peer pressure. “Stress participation,” the Survival Guide says to solicitors. “Talk specifically about ‘joining with other classmates?? who have made a gift.” Seniors already determined not to give should just say no. They should be forceful about it, too, because the committee also knows how to resist stalling tactics: “By giving now,” according to the Guide, “you won’t be contacted...
...impractical. But I had long thought of Hilles as a refuge among Harvard libraries. The guards at Houghton all but frisk you when you emerge from viewing its rare books, Widener is haunted by scowling academes, Lamont is crowded with a Boschian assortment of your drowsing or deadline-crazed classmates??but Hilles remains a place apart, the ex-hipster aunt whom you seek out at Thanksgiving because you know she alone will refrain from asking you about how school is going and exactly what you plan to do after graduation, anyhow...
...position to contribute just as much as the rest of the class,” he says. “Everyone, no matter their background or working-world experiences, seems to universally have a wealth of leadership and life experiences. My classmates??some of whom are just arriving on campus from Iraq, some from McKinsey—are a truly fascinating group of people...
...puts me in a minority at Harvard. Given enough time, most conversations between acquaintances here will devolve into a discussion of the participants’ heritage, usually by way of a discussion of the etymology of their surnames. Lately, though, I’ve begun to wonder whether my classmates?? cultural identities aren’t as newfound as my Freedonian one—albeit more authentic. Our cultural identity isn’t important in our hometowns, where we know each others’ families, and where we tend to take certain parts of our lives?...