Word: spending
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this time, most of the candidates have abandoned campaigning for classes. Dreyfus traverses the Yard one more time to get to his class at Emerson Hall. The lecture for Historical Study B-27, "The English Revolution," is his only Monday class, but he will spend the bulk of the afternoon in meetings at Hillel, where he is annual events coordinator, and doing work in his Quad dorm room will consume most of his evening...
...hopeful optimist when it comes to the pure ideals of Harvard students. Just take a look at how many of our classmates spend their afternoons in Roxbury or Mattapan tutoring, teaching or running an after-school program. Students here are willing and eager to give of their minds and energies. As long as teaching remains just an extracurricular activity...
...passions and endeavors of others seem useless to me. Maybe that's why I'm so sympathetic to consultants and investments bankers--they're no more useless than anybody else. I guess if I wanted to go all out with this particular "-ism," I'd spend all my time trying to comprehend "the void" and despairing at the futility of modern existence. I have a feeling that it wouldn't be long before I said, "Screw this, I want a Porsche. Where's the number for J.P. Morgan...
...extreme surprise, that I couldn't do it. You have to realize that over the course of my FM career, I've poked fun at florists, motorcycle enthusiasts, carnival workers and pre-frosh, just to name a few. Disparaging consultants should be easy by comparison. Consider: Investment bankers spend 18 hours a day entering numbers into spreadsheets. They "analyze data" and "run regressions." Consultants "work in teams" and "brainstorm." They figure out how to "streamline" and "trim the fat." "Let's get back to basics," they might say, pointing to a 3-D pie chart on their PowerPoint presentation...
...been a very long time. (Todd does 10 push-ups) There's ten for you, now like compared to the guys that spend all day at the gym. That's pretty pathetic...