Word: mantras
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...where the person next to you at the bar might be the next CEO of a Fortune 500. Despite several nights of such extracurricular activities each week, HBS students still find time to make it to class. Even after one particularly rowdy night with the HBS Canadian Club at Mantra, a trendy Boston club, almost every student was present the following morning in Aldrich Hall, Room 11, section E’s home base. “Sleep gets sacrificed,” says section member Seth B. Blackley about the HBS lifestyle. According to Kim, section E usually...
...space rental tab for the kind of lavish spectacles that have become prime-time fare on MTV's highly rated My Super Sweet 16. The show documents the excesses of privileged youths commemorating the mighty achievement of making it through their 16th year. Shell-shocked parents--always uttering the mantra "It was worth it"--typically peel off checks for upwards of $200,000. We learn that from the Sun Belt to Erie, Pa., the lack of taste knows no ethnic, religious or cultural bounds. You give teenagers $200,000, and they will spend it exactly as you would expect...
...president of the Chemistry Club, waving back to someone who actually wasn’t waving at you is still going to sting. But it is simply our eagerness to over-think our actions and over-diagnose our weaknesses that makes “awkward” the mantra du jour of Harvard students...
...traveling off-the-cuff. At the time we were still wrapped in Harvard mode, which meant keeping the spontaneity at bay, but at least we started out in the right mind-set. This was senior year and not the time for important sightseeing in interesting countries. Instead, the mantra was “traditional State U. Spring Break.” Food, drinks, beach, and sun—everything else was to be forgotten.Of course, we had to do some research. Group members were each assigned one of the possible locations, which they investigated and reported back to the group...
...What Can You Do? It's now the mantra of emergency management officials everywhere: every household should have enough water, food and other supplies to last at least three days, as well as a family reunion and communication plan. And yet a 2005 survey by Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness found that only 29% of Americans had some or all the major elements of an emergency plan...