Word: comped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprise me. But her application of this belief was a bit unsettling. She explained to me that since there were too few women on the paper's staff, The Crimson should appoint more women editors. I began to explain that all Harvard students were more than welcome to comp, but again she interrupted...
...comping is silly. I enjoyed the Crimson news comp--I cannot tell a lie--but it aged me. I watched psycho-compers rise and fall; I watched my own stories crump; I stayed up late; I probably messed up the Tommy...
When I mention this to people who don't go to school here, they readily understand--once they've gained a working definition of "comp...
They nod their heads if I tell them how competitive it can be to join an extracurricular here, because "comp: short for competition" works very well with their image of a hyperambitious Harvard...
Maybe all this exposure to Harvard's comp smorgasbord will put us ahead of everyone else when we enter the real world. We'll impress the powers that be at cocktail parties; we'll brown-nose the comp directors of corporate America; we'll be rising stars. At least that's what we've always been told...