Word: rejectionism
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Last week, admissions letters separated prospective Harvard students into two neat piles: accepted and rejected (ignoring the fuzzy purgatory of the waitlist). For those who were accepted, Harvard’s response was further proof of their invincibility. But at a school teeming with unstoppable Type As, someone inevitably ends...
When asked if he has encountered rejection, Hunter A. Maats ’04, a biochemical sciences concentrator in Mather House, responds, “What haven’t I been rejected from?” He then lightheartedly enumerates his failures at Harvard, among them an unsuccessful bid...
But his ease with rejection is somewhat of an anomaly. While rejection has had little effect on Maats’ self-esteem, for students like Peter—a senior chemistry concentrator who spoke with FM on the condition that his real name not be revealed—rejection has...
In high school, Peter—class valedictorian, an Eagle Scout and a National Merit Scholar—always rose to the top. Now, without any plans for next year, his steady string of rejections has taken a visible toll. He slouches in the booth. He avoids eye contact. His...
What is more lamentable is the author’s nostalgia for the “standard male behavior” that prevailed in the past. To prescribe old-fashioned, non-metrosexual male behavior as “standard” not only excludes all those men who choose to...