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...ever feel as though your reaching for the top is betraying the idealist virtues you wrote about in your admissions essay, then you might want to examine some of Harvard’s community service opportunities. There, you’ll find all the raw ambition that you could ever desire, along with enough resumé opportunities to make your head spin. Don’t be fooled by the apparent sappy altruism of your fellow volunteers—they won’t seem so harmless when they snatch up your job at Citigroup. If you happen to enjoy...
...Current Issue •Photo Essay- How is Fashion Shaping Up? Designers are anything but risk-averse when it comes to leveraging fall style
...test my endurance and skill not only in sleep, but also in something very closely related: mindless sedentary activity. As surely as there are good and bad ways to arbitrarily drop the names of obscure social theorists in section, or to insert an obviously faulty counterargument into an essay that has no thesis, there is a correct way to waste time, and it involves reality television. You see, with reality TV, just one mind-numbing day of sitting on the couch nursing a bag of Tostitos feels like weeks and weeks of climbing mountains, being forced to consume strange creatures...
...Current Issue •Photo Essay- How is Fashion Shaping Up? Designers are anything but risk-averse when it comes to leveraging fall style
...resources, so for a dozen years, from age seven, Eric was raised at the Royal Orphanage in Wolverhampton, an institution he describes as "bleakly Victorian." The school was bleak and chilly. "I was cold until I was nineteen," Idle recalled, conjuring up the deprivations George Orwell wrote in an essay-memoir of his own educational incarceration, "Such, Such Were the Joys...