Word: toweritis
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Kaavya Viswanathan did not fall, as some would posit, from the glorious perch of a published author. Kaavya’s roost was atop the same rickety tower of meritocracy that so many of us built on our way to our Harvard admission...
...just because we sleep between Ivy-covered walls, it doesn’t mean we sleep soundly. And as we climb higher, the tower weakens further under instability of its hasty structure. Some breeze might come along and poke out a rung, and suddenly we’ll be back on the ground, surrounded by the rubble of our own accomplishments...
That’s where Kaavya sits, and it’s scary for us to see her there. Although assuring ourselves that we would never plagiarize others’ work, we, too, fear that some freak revelation might suddenly collapse our own personal tower...
...dared to add one more accomplishment to her tower and fell all the way back to New Jersey. Somewhere in the sky there is a tier of security, but Kaavya’s fall shows us that right now we are nowhere close...
...trading fiasco at Goldman Sachs.These scandals, and the Faculty of Arts & Sciences’ ousting of President Lawrence H. Summers, have made 2006 a nightmarish year for Harvard’s public relations. Yet, inevitably, 20,000 over-achieving high school seniors will try to climb into our Ivy Tower next winter, U.S. World & News Report’s ritual crowning of Harvard will stabilize our jolted foundations, and most of our graduating class will exit Johnston Gate with promising jobs. For Harvard is Harvard: the most famous college in the world. When my brother and I met a beautiful...