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Harvard graduates are known to excel in their fields. Some become President of the United States or president of a major news network. Wade Davis ’75 also excels in his field. He is National Geographic’s Explorer-In-Residence. What, exactly, does that entail? FM called him up to talk about the job. FM: How do you decide which places you will visit? WD: Generally what I’m trying to do is find stories that will allow for deeper stories that reveal the unique manifestation of the human heart. We?...
...House system: the people most likely to need the Houses are also the least likely to talk. The legions of the socially awkward at Harvard are, depending on the degree to which they are awkward, less likely to form a good blocking group, thrive in a student group, or excel in sports—all of which require strong interpersonal skills. Institutionalized relationships—like marriage and sports teams—are important precisely because they feel more secure than non-institutionalized ones. This is why we need real House communities: so the students who find it difficult...
Regardless of this setback, both teams are supportive of each other and are hoping to excel this season. The equestrian team has said it will do financially what...
...what a scrapper the younger Pekar was. A large part of the book explores his use of violence as a way to gain respect and attention from his peers, something he felt he never got from his parents. Other, ultimately self-defeating behaviors also manifest themselves. His drive to excel at everything eventually makes Pekar so deeply fearful of failure that he quits anything that challenges him: school sports, the navy and college. Among other things, The Quitter becomes a devastatingly sharp psychological portrait of how early adaptive childhood behaviors can eventually turn against...
...English school in Beijing, decidedly less romantic than it’s made out to be in the glossy brochures. And there are once-aspiring bankers now leaving the halls of Citi and Morgan with hunched backs and pasty skin, wondering if summers pissed away making love to Microsoft Excel could remain bearable for the standard two-year tenure. There is uncertainty everywhere, and only a lucky few can really claim to be immune...