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...excessively driven (“highly motivated”) applicants, is ingrained at Harvard. Astonishingly, some of us came here with ambitions beyond becoming deeply intellectual masters of the liberal arts. A few of us even like the idea of competitive, prestigious, high-paying jobs. Yes, the process is insane??but what can you really expect from students whose dream job involves working 70 to 100 hours a week in a cubicle in New York...
...instance, I was once asked what I thought was my greatest accomplishment. If I were to answer truthfully, I would have said that it was the time that I beat the game “Gears of War” with the difficulty set to “Insane?? while playing with a controller whose buttons kept sticking, preventing me from effectively zooming in with my sniper rifle and throwing accurate grenades. Unfortunately, my video game skills, while the sole cause of most of my friendships, would not be looked upon favorably by interviewers...
...like a good editorial columnist—to the op-ed page. And there staring back at me was David Brooks’ column, entitled “Stressed for Success?” The piece analyzed how “the [college] admissions process has gone totally insane?? and why high school seniors should strive, as hard as it might be, to keep their college acceptances and rejections in proportion. So far, so good. And then it came: “If you put me in a room with 15 students from...
...We’re really excited,” said freshman Clay Johnson, who finished third skippering in the D-division with classmate crews Emily Simon and Samantha Fink. “Everyone sailed extremely well. Cardwell was insane??just so dominant. This was his last regatta of his career on the Charles before nationals. To go out like this, with a bang, is great...
...After a month of telling so many stories about this brother and that sister, my roommates finally were like ‘How many siblings do you have?’” Though 12 kids may be, as the movie says, an “insane?? number, in the end it proves to be 12 times...