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...First-year or senior guy: Yes, please...
Some Harvard extracurriculars create potentially uncomfortable power dynamics. Take, for example, the famous First-Year Outdoor Program rule “No hop on FOP” or the prefect-prefectee hookup ban. Given the presence of undergrad teaching fellows in departments like math, things would seem to get a little more complicated in the academic arena. What if that guy or girl you hooked up with last spring turns out to be your teacher this fall...
...even Dunay’s game face can’t stick forever. Sometimes, the first-year, who says he “tries to be calculating,” will let slip what cards are in his hand. The corners of his lips perk into a smile, and he becomes sheepish as he speaks like the politician he knows he is. “A politician tries to give as little information as possible and tries to appeal to everyone without upsetting anyone,” he says. “That probably relates...
...imaginative exercise in oration incorporates more senses than just the visual. As Senator Dunay of the future moves Congressional masses with mere words, Harvard College first-year Dunay moves his lips, vocal chords, and hands, going through all the motions of the legislator par excellence he hopes to become. “Lying in bed at night, I’ll be talking to myself out loud,” Dunay says. “I guess we all think about what it would be like to be able to make a speech on the floor of the Congress...
...wealthy and they’ll help me,” he says. “Maybe they will remember the name Travis Kavulla in 30 years—I’d be really honored if they did remember my name,” says the politically interested first-year (who forgot his interviewer’s name by the end of their chat). “But one thing I hope they don’t do is put my name on a goddamn Rolodex and call me up in 30 years asking for money...