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...corrupting Harvard’s image of “social superiority” just because I own fewer material things than other people? As a “non-college, blue-collar kid,” I think I am quite capable of “us[ing] Harvard’s resources as well as other people would,” despite Fitzsimmons’ fears that I cannot...
...largest automaker, has 11 U.S. plants and expects to open a truck factory in San Antonio, Texas, in 2006. European brands, including BMW and Mercedes-Benz, are also growing. CAR estimates that foreign automakers operating in the U.S. add 1.8 million jobs to the American economy, including white-collar, dealership and supplier positions--from partsmakers to the bartenders at post-whistle watering holes...
...poised as they are, academia is not out of the question.But like many upperclassmen, a fair bit of existential anxiety has lately welled up in me. Here’s my problem: I love history, but I am ambivalent about becoming an academic—the whitest of white-collar professionals, whose usefulness to society at large is questionable, who at worst appears to live in a detached existence floating above the mundane everyday.This spectacle has, at least, offered up one epiphany: professors are homo sapiens, too. Just like their students back home, some will hook up, and many will...
...student from a blue-collar background, I was rather appalled by the wealth of the place,” Fitzsimmons said. “To say I had a chip on my shoulder would be a wild understatement...
...much as I am sympathetic to non-college, blue collar kids, like me…we wouldn’t all use Harvard’s resources as well as other people would,” Fitzsimmons told students at a similar event held two weeks later, where soda and cookies had replaced the cider and cheese. He confessed his doubts that “you’ll ever see a perfect representation of American social classes at a place like Harvard...