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...someone who was never very good at taking advice, I feel somewhat unhappy about dispensing the kind of wisdom that I myself always made a point of disregarding. As a parent, I’ve always been amazed at how children thrive when they do exactly the opposite of what you think is in their best interests. Still, at the risk of encouraging conformity among those who think differently, I want to endorse the power of taking risks, going out on a limb, sticking your neck out, deviating from the straight and narrow, doing all those things that require...
...learn to see things that other people can’t see below the surface. I’ve stood, awkwardly holding a sad excuse for a margarita in the corner of a crowded BOND party, the organization that serves as a much more subtle and somewhat undercover version of the BGLTSA. I remember running my eyes through the room and wondering just how many of these Harvard men only expressed their gayness secretly within the confines of BOND. Even when I decided to publish this piece in FM, I hesitantly asked each of my roommates for their permission...
...last moments of my 23rd birthday party. Aaron had convinced me to make my birthday bash a toga-only affair, and I walked into my room as the crowds cleared and the din of Cher died down somewhere in a darkened dance room. My own bedroom has become somewhat of a lounge meant to exude the vibe of sex—red cellophane draped the lights, and Morcheeba crooned jazzy lyrics from my laptop speakers. As I loosened the safety pins on my toga, I suddenly heard a rustle coming from my bed, and looked up to see two girls...
...turnaround Lafley engineered at Procter and Gamble won him a national reputation, something the modest and somewhat non-descript 56-year-old says came as somewhat of a shock...
...complete an assignment is often the only fuel that keeps burning well into the late hours of those most glorious of college experiences—the all-nighters. It is this deliberate desire for absent motivation, coupled with an intrinsic, pride-based drive to still finish all work somewhat satisfactorily, that leads to quite the unhealthy cycle of procrastination, Harvard-style...