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...came to Harvard not to build a resum?? and get a consulting job, but to explore some of the most intriguing academic questions in the world today and—perish the thought—to actually learn something, good luck. But for the rest of you, I have a few cynical words of advice...
...waste your time with any group whose membership doesn’t exceed 300—any smaller, and you might as well start your own. A leadership position in something huge, like The Crimson or the Institute of Politics, would look really great on a resum?? and can, if Goldman Sachs ever asks, be easily justified as the result of your “passion,” “dedication,” or even “remote interest.” But you should be prepared to jettison those commitments in a year...
...Assignments are minimal and include keeping a short journal (tip: listen to Britney Spears' super-hit Dear Diary for inspiration). The biggest perk of the two required papers is that students have enormous freedom: you can analyze Napoleon Dynamite, a teen self-help book, or even your experience observing resum??-padding high school kids working at a soup kitchen. Don't bank on an easy A, though, for despite the "duh, I already knew that" appearance of the course material, the tests are challenging and the TFs hold higher academic standards for the papers than their casual air might...
...about an over-achieving Indian girl in her senior year of high school, whose lifelong goal to attend Harvard is derailed when the Dean of Admissions finds out she has no friends and doesn’t know how to have fun. Despite Opal’s impeccable resum??, the dean basically tells her that she’s too nerdy for college (not cool enough for school), and that for the next few months, she should “get out there and experience being young.” At first, Opal is taken aback...
Knowing that a tenured youth football coach won’t impress many recruiters, I’ve started to get desperate to add other activities to my resum??. Like many other Harvard undergraduates, my natural inclination in this situation was to try to found an extracurricular club. The only problem is, the last time I checked the number of clubs at Harvard, I got a figure so big it had to be expressed in scientific notation. In order to be original, I started a club called “Collectors of Potato Chips that are Shaped Like Things...