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...draws my picture, which is good, I think. It gives me a big nose, which I sort of think I have, but she keeps on mumbling, “No the nose is all wrong, all wrong,” and wringing out her hands. I buy her a drink, and she writes me a message on an index card. “I write backwards,” she explains, and tells me to go read it in the bathroom mirror. I do, and it’s nothing naughty or exciting, just saying I have really white teeth...
...social and economic lives of Harvard students in the real world: Not only is it perceived as being the natural—often default—next stop in the lives of the young graduates of elite colleges, but New York’s glossiness also indicates a sort of ultimate achievement of the cosmopolitan refinement and worldliness that Harvard students work so hard to cultivate and realize...
...that their desire to move to New York stems from an inability to see themselves elsewhere: They’ve always assumed they would live in New York, and so they limit their searches for jobs and graduate schools to the city in their crystal ball. But that sort of logic—and the mass migration that results from it—is flawed because of the chicken-or-egg scenario it presents: Graduates go to New York because it’s the only place they see themselves, but it’s the only place they...
...making changes. “Sugi had more sleepless nights than anyone else I remember,” Halpern says. As Ganeshananthan’s thesis advisor, Kincaid remembers a different aspect of her thesis process. “She’s a good writer; I was just sort of standing by,” Kincaid says. “You read, you make suggestions, and you correct, but in the end, it’s hers.” After graduating from Harvard, Ganeshananthan went on to work at The Atlantic Monthly, returning to her budding novel after...
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