Word: cutthroats
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...Harvard I go,” I eventually boarded my magic carpet bound for a whole new world. I had packed some Disney stuffed animals and photographs to brighten my dorm room, but I expected to leave the warmth and happiness of Disney World behind for the cold, cutthroat city of Cambridge. But after nearly three years here, I have come to the startling conclusion that Disney World and Harvard are eerily similar. Allow me to explain...
...students I know who have gone through this process seem to think that each individual firm has a degree of character or personality. One firm would be more athletic and personable, one more academic, one more cutthroat. Do you think you see that at all? Do you look for certain personality traits in Harvard students that seem to correspond to a lot of what you see in the firm...
...Harvardian universe, then, the advantage often goes—at least in the short term—to the manipulative and dishonest and cutthroat, the people willing to backstab and lie and cheat their way upwards. At Harvard, meaningless club elections swirl with intrigue and rumors of unethical tactics, and Undergraduate Council vice presidents nearly get impeached for breaking election rules. And almost everyone knows someone who overreached—someone who alienated too many people, or told one too many lies, or cut too many corners and collided with the Ad Board...
...higher one climbs, meanwhile, the worse it becomes. If Harvard as a whole is a pathological place crawling with cutthroat people, then elite Harvard, land of final club boys and their swan-necked women, is just as cutthroat—only with heaps of money thrown in. There, success does not merely require unbridled ambition, it requires a steady infusion of cash. Whether you are picking up a tab at the Red Line or Daedalus, forking over the cover at Axis and Avalon, arranging that intersession trip to Barcelona or Rio de Janeiro, or shelling out for the latest designer...
...maintenance. The observatory then competes for outside grants to finance specific projects. But if the OMB proposal were adopted, the observatory could lose the funding to keep its scientists and equipment—an onerous and undesirable situation for an institution whose first priority should be innovative research, not cutthroat bureaucracy...