Word: comped
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...Harvard activities, house life is by far the most mystifying. Harvard students love summer internships in finance, panels arbitrated by Nobel laureates, and painful comp processes. Yet unlike any of these, house life is not for anything. You can’t put the fact that you went to a house formal on your resume. “IM dodgeball” is not a marketable skill. And the people you play pool with in the basement are never going to secure you a position with Goldman Sachs...
...Weiss ’10 outlines the comprehensive marketing campaign. “We try to get the attention of every student here through flyering, postering, a lot of e-mails.” The man power behind Weiss’ laborious advertising comes from HCC’s comp requirements, which mostly concern hyping the show and selling a minimum of 10 tickets each...
...show’s members are proud of the inclusive nature of their organization. On Harvard Time has no comp requirements or any prerequisites to join, and its willingness to take on amateurs has allowed the team to grow into a veritable army. And although staff members may join without experience, they are taught writing and production skills needed to run the show. “In a sense they’re almost pre-professional,” says Brian T. Fithian ’10, a former On Harvard Time writer. “What they?...
Nelson T. Greaves ’10, staff writer and correspondent, also feels that On Harvard Time’s willingness to take on new members without barriers is an asset. “Because there’s no comp, the people who are there are there because they want to be there,” he says. “And I think that creates a lot of positive energy...
...sciences. Each semester, the colloquium will feature two speakers who will discuss issues related to both fields, according to a press release issued last week. “There are clearly a lot of connections between the interests of the IIC and the things that are happening in comp sci in SEAS, and the challenge has been to get people to sit down and engage in conversations,” said SEAS Computer Science professor Matthew Welsh. Executive Director of the IIC Rosalind Reid said that the seminar series—which will not be united by an overarching theme?...