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...started. You need to find internships or entry-level positions at banks and other large institutions where they have a training program that can convert raw intelligence to specific intelligence.” As for himself, Zell said his zeal for risk taking and his desire to excel drove him to succeed. “I have always believed that everybody on this earth has a responsibility,” Zell said. “I think that responsibility is to test their limits. I’ve spent my whole life testing my limits. Can I do this...
...grateful for her progress.“I’m really grateful for the opportunity to be at Harvard because it definitely feels like a fit for me,” she continues. “I have an amazing team and great coaches to excel as a player, but I also get the academics that I really need as a person to succeed in other areas of my life.”This desire to become a fully-rounded person in addition to honing abilities on the field is characteristic of Nichols’ outlook. With a joint...
What do metalsmithing, manners, and Microsoft Excel have in common? If Jay M. Harris and the Undergraduate Council’s ideas come to fruition, you could spend your first January term, or “J-term,” taking a three-week course in such subjects. For 45 minutes at last night’s Undergraduate Council (UC) meeting, Harris, the chair of the Gen Ed Committee, and Council members traded opinions about a J-term, the optional winter term in January that will be implemented along with the new calendar in 2009-2010. Debate focused...
...Wilson ’88, a NASA astronaut, was given the Women’s Professional Achievement Award. “We recognize outstanding seniors at Harvard who have made contributions to the community and whose example can serve as an inspiration for other women at Harvard to excel,” said Women’s Center director Susan B. Marine. Harvard students and faculty nominated 54 senior women, of whom 33 completed the application to receive recognition. The nominees include leaders of student organizations, active volunteers at the Philip Brooks House Association, and participants in arts or athletics...
...Santa Paula, Calif.; Christendom College in Front Royal, Va.; and Ave Maria University in Ave Maria, Fla. The numbers are tiny--the three colleges combined claim some 1,200 undergrads--but they are precisely the kind of eruptions of non-state-related religious vitality at which he thinks we excel...