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...going to miss this place. Almost nothing anyone told me about Harvard has been accurate. "You’ll be surrounded by attractive men who want to take you out to expensive meals and share your opinions about Proust!" "You will get on the Lampoon instantly, expending no effort!" "You will love the hot breakfasts!" "The person who lives in Natalie Portman’s old room will be easy to befriend and not think it’s weird when you come try to use her shower as a shrine...
...only piece of good advice I received before coming here was from someone who told me to sign up for Business School studies immediately. "You can make up to $40 in under an hour!" (The website for this, incidentally, is http://www.hbs.edu/cler/current.html.) "Then get a real job," the person added. "You can’t get job references if your only employment experience consists of pretending to be a banana-export czar in a simulated negotiation." ("But my son is pregnant!" I told my negotiation partner. "You can’t expect me to fire him!" I lost...
...We’re realizing you don’t try to squeeze everybody through the same prism,” says Harvard Business School Professor Robert Steven Kaplan, who chairs the Office for Sustainability’s executive committee. “Everybody had to get sensitized to what can and can’t get done...
Dean of Harvard College John U. Monro ’34 argued that relocating freshmen to the Houses would only make it easier for the class to get to know one another. In the spring of 1960, Monro told The Crimson that the main debate was over building new Houses or overfilling older ones, discounting other administrators’ claims that the new plan would profoundly affect the Harvard social community...
...That was dropped because it felt like people were anxious to get into Harvard, and people thought that it was sort of odd that once you get in that you had to interview to get into a House,” said Freshman Dean and former Associate Dean of the College for Housing Thomas A. Dingman...