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...world, and we students benefit immensely from that history. We might think that we are smarter and more ambitious and more important than students at UC Berkeley or Illinois State, and that is why we are the ones featured on the cover of the U.S.A. Today Life Section or in the Village Voice. Much of the credit for those achievements, however, must be attributed to the advantages bestowed upon us by our golden ticket sent from Byerly Hall. As the world has seen with these recent scandals, we who have received the benefits of admittance to the Ivy Tower...
...going back and rereading some of your earlier e-mails is always refreshingly mortifying. 10. Don’t take anything too seriously—So you didn’t become the head of your choice extracurricular, you cried when you found out your housing assignment,* your section leader is the biggest tool, your three finals were scheduled back to back, and the list goes on. (Note: all of the above happened to me.) Shit happens to everyone here. I always take comfort in knowing that, no matter how messed up things seem, someone probably has it worse. Despite...
...important job search, where HBS students learn the art of schmoozing that they see as vital to their careers.GETTING IT DONE (REALLY?)“Social life is... a big part of the MBA program,” says Edmund J. Kim. Kim is president of HBS section E, one of ten 90-person subdivisions of the business school student body. As a student leader, he knows all about the interplay between social life and academic life. HBS students frequent pricey Harvard Square haunts like Daedalus, Grafton Street, and Noir. But in addition to the bar-hopping, the members...
...gratitude journal, where every day I write down things that fill me with gratitude for being alive,” Burton writes in an e-mail. Others, like Allen A. T. Ewal ’06-’07 have found a little more inner peace through in-section meditation. “Before the section, hearing the word ‘meditation’ would make me roll my eyes. After trying it out, though, I was surprised to find that it actually left me relaxed for hours afterwards,” Ewal writes in an e-mail...
...Buckner missed ground ball in the 1986 World Series, 20 years ago this year. “As a Mets fan at Fenway, I think of Bill Buckner on the 20th anniversary of the ’86 series,” Balkema said. In the parents’ section, the mothers, fathers, and grandparents of the Crimson players both expressed pride and told stories of youths spent in and around Fenway. For Jim Byrne, father of injured second baseman Brendan Byrne, the park brought back memories of his father, a policeman who used to bring young Jim Byrne...