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...well-dressed student slides his fork into a tender steak and cautiously moves a piece towards his mouth. Other members of the table laugh heartily at the table head’s quips, offering commentary of their own to impress the distinguished table companions. This is no final club affair. The setting? A typical recruiting luncheon for Harvard undergrads, given by leading financial firms like Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers. Harvard students are well-known for flocking to investment banking and consulting firms following graduation, and it’s hard to turn down companies that throw such lavish events...
...Nabokov, or Tolkien. Harvard students sure love their interesting modern novels by people with names like Milan Kundera and Jhumpa Lahiri. Yalies enjoy history and philosophy and put Tolkien books and movies on their profiles. Harvardians enjoy Dancing, Art, and Oscar-winning movies about race. Yale students want to impress you with what they’re doing. Harvard students want to impress you with how cool they look while doing...
...Dubai Racing Academy's 2007 cup, and Rasha al-Emam, the Saudi production director for MTV and a race-car driver herself. Hobeika struggles and at one point admits, "I spent seven years at university, and I can't find a job. I just want to achieve something and impress everyone...
...down to how people think about the arts and the sciences as two diametrically opposed fields. Frankel is confident that the popularization of science through her arresting images is the tip of an iceberg. You can go to a cocktail party and use an arcane line of poetry and impress everyone, but it’s okay to say, “Oh, I was never much of a science student.” I think it is an embarrassment that our society does not include science in our conversation and...it is up to the future leaders...
Every fall for the past decade, Harvard seniors have devoured The Wall Street Journal every morning to stay abreast of economic trends and impress employers. This year, the news is less a source of information and more a source of worry...