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...alumni. Along with the personal responsibilities that come with graduating and moving on (packing up our rooms, saying goodbye to friends, seeing the parts of Boston we never managed to visit) are a multitude of institutionally imposed duties. There are so many of these duties that I have a pile of Harvard "to do" mail next to my computer...
...mail in my "to do" pile preys on this fresh undergraduate addiction. Right on top is a flier with a picture of the richly and traditionally appointed Harvard Faculty Club on the cover. In brackets below the photo: "warm welcome". It's almost too good to be true. For a mere $60 introductory membership, I can join the Harvard Faculty Club. This most elite institution will welcome me to sit by the hearth. But does this cheapen Harvard? I wonder what the professor who gave me a "C" in statistics would think to see me lounging around his club...
...happen to live in New York, I can donate $25 to Harvard Magazine and receive a thank you gift of glasses decorated with scenes from the Yard. Maybe I'll put them underneath my diploma framed underneath a watercolor of Johnston Gate--the next offer in my pile...
...entry-level salary might not pay for all these little pieces of Harvard nostalgia, but that's okay because at the bottom of the pile are the credit card solicitations. I've gotten these throughout college, but am finally considering them now that I'll have an income. Maybe I'll start by ordering the class picture. Or a videotape of the Commencement Morning Exercises. That way I'll be able to transport myself back to Harvard whenever I want, this assuming of course that I'll live in a place supplied with...
...week without checking the e-mail, a year without joining the club, a party without anyone from Harvard--there must be something out there we're missing. What would life be like had we never come here? I hope I have the courage to toss away my "to do" pile and find out. But only after I take my mother to lunch at the Faculty Club with my two-for-one promotional coupon...