Word: manning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...waited in the South Station bus terminal for the Peter Pan bus to get going. On this trip to discover what the life of a management consultant was like, I was quickly discovering what it was not. I rode in a bus for four hours in front of a man singing the same four bars of a song over and over again. I wondered whether this adventure was a good idea. The bus delivered me to New York's Port Authority with just enough time to change into more respectable clothing in the definitely proletarian bathroom. I hailed...
...contact in the client's finance department. At his desk, she doesn't sit down--but stands by the end of his desk and takes control of the meeting. Wang exhibits the same sensitivity to people's state of mind that she showed with Conrad--she asks the man about his daughter and about the progress of his new home. The unspoken message is that she understands how full his plate is. She leaves him with a so-called structured task, as planned. It is important, she tells me, not to "outshine the client" by "being a superstar"--again, remaining...
...problem I have found at Harvard is that, unlike Sherri, Harvard students focus on the what instead of the who. Not only are we eager to know if someone plays lacrosse, acts in the Ex or is a Fox man, we thrive on knowing. Knowing if someone sports a Crimson Key T-shirt or sings with the sexiness of an Opportune, we can easily group them into superficial categories of cool or uncool. Are they worthy of a nod, a quick hello or an invite to the next HPC cocktail party? The coolness factor is everywhere, and I am guilty...
...more secure because you have to go through your room to get to them. I have a friend who was taking a shower last year in a freshman dorm when she saw a pair of feet underneath the shower curtain. And the curtain was opened by a naked man who said hello and introduced himself to her. Needless to say, these are not optimal bathroom conditions...
...Paul J. Macdonald, whose family has owned the historical establishment Leavitt and Pearce (est. 1883) for the past 15 years, says that "every fall, a fresh batch of freshmen come in," many with the assumption that a Harvard man smokes a pipe. (Not all of his customers are male, of course, though his female customers are mostly European women.) Macdonald sees it as a rite of passage, one that is often quickly discarded due to the amount of patience and work one must put into his or her pipe. It's amusingly easy, after all, to spot a novice pipe...