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...contradictions don’t end there. Xuan is a Phi Beta Kappa Biochemical Sciences concentrator currently applying to med school. But he is also a resident—and current co-president—of the progressive Dudley Co-Op, a strict vegetarian and a “novice” member of the avant-garde. He’s a self-described private person, and yet according to his friends, you often can’t get the kid to shut...
Though among the most public of Xuan’s achievements, CASV is not what he’s most proud of. It’s not all the music either. It’s not even Phi Beta Kappa. For Xuan, his biggest accomplishment is “being a part of the Co-Op community. It’s the only place at Harvard where I felt like part of something much bigger.” Spoken like a true man of contradictions...
It’s just one way that Narang balances his life. The Phi Beta Kappa senior runs cross country and track, does research for a blind graduate student, is writing a thesis linking international relations to applied math and is fielding multiple job offers in finance and consulting in New York City...
...recently named Phi Beta Kappas are so smart that FM had to have their secrets. Chosen on the basis of their GPAs (4.0) and professor recommendations (stellar), this bunch has words of wisdom on everything from which courses to take to how often is often enough when it comes to showering (turns out daily bathing is not always required). Want to be a Phi Beta Kappa? Read on, and maybe, just maybe, you will be. Here’s what we learned from our super-smart shaman...
...they should know from someone who held the job last year that the Undergraduate Council is not about motions or meetings. Any Harvard student could figure this out. (The number of members of the Undergraduate Council in the past several years who are also elected to Phi Beta Kappa is excruciatingly small—trust me, it isn’t rocket science to learn the ropes). But there is a risk. The real risk with electing Ty Moore and Ian W. Nichols ’06 is that they will push the envelope and force people out of their...