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Quincy House resident Gretchen J. Guo ’08 said she drops by the store whenever she passes...
...impact on his current Harvard lifestyle. “There’s a really condescending tendency among Harvard students to kind of deify the working class, but there was a certain genuine-ness that I found. Eventually it got out that I went to Harvard, and within the store I had a dozen mothers—‘when you going back to school?’ a guy who would stop me and talk to me about Shakespeare in the break room, not because he wanted to be an investment banker and go to grad school...
...mother can embarrass me even more than before because she can now be sure to work the fact that I attend Harvard into every conversation with just about anyone. I’m pretty sure my mother has had the following exchange with approximately 50 percent of the store clerks along the West Coast...
...Store Clerk: Is she going to school out there? How lovely...
Jewish Mother: Yes, she goes to Harvard. (Calling loudly across the store) Jillian!? Won’t this be nice when you go back to HARVARD...