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...many failures has prompted some Harvard professors to begin hoping that undergraduates, who have been flocking to finance for as long as anyone can remember (that is, for four years), will take a broader view of their career choices. Indeed, the angst that accompanies “selling out?? has never been far below the surface, so much so that University President Drew G. Faust devoted her baccalaureate address to that very subject in June. Just four months later, with the prospects for a career on Wall Street approaching the prospects of a career in journalism, isn?...
...year with a big, fashion-savvy bang. Yummy? As I scurry to class in my loose silk blouse and navy shorts along with a pair of flashy flats (an eye-catching outfit, if I do say so myself), I am surprised to see that I do not stick out??at least not today. But let’s face it: this is how the year always starts. People come back from the summer feeling refreshed, rejuvenated, maybe even a bit sexy. They reveal this through their seemingly “I tried a little bit harder today?...
...your calculators out??it took just five minutes for 10 people to polish off over 40 pounds of sautéed spinach Saturday afternoon at b.good’s fifth annual Garlicky Green Eating Championship...
...offer a similar assessment of the brave new world facing Harvard’s would-be i-bankers. Carl Fox’s moralizing view of Wall Street life as inherently dishonest is closely paralleled by commentators who, for years, have bemoaned the culture of “selling out?? that leads so many Harvard students into “morally bankrupt” finance careers instead of productive labor. This approach sees a sort of poetic justice in the collapse of financial titans, as those who spurned substantive work for filthy lucre reap their just desserts...
...Reconnecting with classmates often offers a second challenge. Having attended Harvard-Radcliffe in a different time, many LGBT alumni were not “out?? as undergraduates. Coming back can mean having to come out all over again and potentially have a set of awkward conversations and even encounter rejection – an experience few want to relive. And then add in the fact that, even for those of us (like me) who were “out?? and don’t have to worry about having to come out all over again...