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...would you describe your consulting colleagues? Somewhat different from your philosophy classmates, I would guess. Businesspeople get a little bit of bad press, sometimes. There are a lot of normal and ethical people. But at the tip of the profession, the people who make it to a high level in élite consulting firms are, on the whole, nutty. They are driven beyond what is healthy and, at some level, quite unbalanced. At the firm I helped to found they went out and hired a group of psychotherapists. What other occupation would think it natural to spend half a million...
...Think of it this way: not so long ago, freshman spring was the deadline for choosing concentrations, and somewhat longer ago, freshmen had no choice whatsoever in area of discipline. (History and Literature, the oldest concentration, was also once the only concentration.) It wasn’t until the early 1900s that then-Harvard President Abbott Lawrence Lowell began pushing for more concentrations, musing that a “well-educated man must know a little bit of everything and one thing well.” Thus came the Core Curriculum (now General Education for all you froshies), along with...
...Don’t act like you own the Delphic. If the President says don’t go upstairs, he’s not going to think it’s cute when you do. Don’t mock [insert club here]’s somewhat arcane rules—club members actually take them quite seriously. Don’t take it personally when there are more BU, BC, Wellesley, and Tufts girls at the AD’s Christmas party, or pink party, or Caddyshack party—it is no reflection on your...
...Don’t worry if you get put in Expos in the Spring. You can write a college paper without having had the course and still do quite well—evidence that Expos is somewhat useless. If you feel insecure writing without having taken Expos, you can go to the Writing Center to talk through your paper. It really helps, and unlike a tutor in high school, the Writing Center is not at all frowned upon...
...years ago, the Larijanis would have been considered arch hard-liners," said Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. "But the spectrum has moved so far right in recent years that now, compared with Ahmadinejad, they appear somewhat moderate...