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...while visible, they’re pushed aside, ignored in favor of the overflowing tray of student affairs business, which sits on her desk. She only gets to the contents of that tray, she says, after business hours, when meetings have ended and most students have headed to dinner...
Perhaps he sat behind the desk at Lamont when you checked out a book, offering a gentle smile or a kind word...
...months, I moved from desk to desk, and finally when they gave me an office, it was windowless,” he says. “Nobody would have seen me at that point and thought I was being groomed for anything more than writing sidebars...
...position papers or speeches, which I would extensively edit. By contrast, here at the Kennedy School, all the writing was mine from start to finished product. I admit that it took time to wean myself from the reflex of expecting a rough draft to appear magically on my desk ready for my energetic editing. At the Kennedy School, if the paper appeared on my desk, I was the one who had placed it there...
This was the hour during Freshman Week when I leaned back in my desk chair and stared out my common room window to collect my thoughts. From the fourth floor of Canaday A, I took a moment to meditate on the illuminated Memorial Hall tower rising up majestically from behind the entryways across the courtyard. The scene provided an incredible backdrop for a moment of reflection. How did I get to live and study in a place like this? How many others had admired this very same view? What would the rest of college be like...