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...went to OCS sophomore year because I wanted to apply for an internship in D.C. A guy spent seven minutes with me, and he basically said, ‘You’re too young for any of the jobs,’ and handed me a business card,” she said. “I ended up getting the internship I wanted...
It’s an uncomfortable truth: in any one game, the worst player can beat the best player in the world. “That’s certainly one thing that makes poker sexy to the average guy,” says Matt Hawrilenko, a 27-year-old professional poker player who graduated from Princeton in 2004, where he worked in the dining halls for financial aid. “In any given day, you can beat the best. Or, certainly, in any given day, you can compete with the best. The average guy is never going...
...saying goes, the next best thing to gambling and winning, is gambling and losing—and that bodes well for professionals. Forget skill and luck—all you have to make sure is that you’re better than the next guy, and the multitudes that have flocked to online poker in recent years have ensured that there is a consistent crop of bad players. One of Ian’s friends said he liked gambling because he is “surrounded by inept people, yet none of them are his boss, and if they...
...where she’s interested in what people are saying to each other, I pay more attention to the way people navigate and—because I’m in almost the same spot every week—to patterns. There’s a guy with a blue bicycle who has crashed on the same spot three times this year, an old lady who crosses Brattle Street at needlessly perfect right angles, and tour groups with matching beverages. All this against the eternal background flow of customers into their footwear-appropriate shops (Nike SB Dunks to American...
...away, fast. I’m pretty sure I heard him say “I can’t believe I just did that,” but that might have just been me projecting my thoughts. Just before I reached my iPod, a heavily tattooed guy with a ZZ-Top beard picked it off the floor and gave it a look. “It’s okay man...I secretly listen to Norah Jones...