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The whole time I’ve been at Harvard, I’ve never heard anyone else recall this experience, much less associate with it any sort of unease or irony. Many will note, however, that the stereotypical Harvard experience rests in coping with the transition from being incredibly...

Author: By Max J Kornblith | Title: The More Things Change | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

The particular rules of the game as played in such a venue yielded countless surprises: Students found out who had gotten management-consulting interviews, for instance, on a sheet posted on the college’s cluttered daily announcement board rather than via e-mail. Exam scores, too, were publicly...

Author: By Max J Kornblith | Title: The More Things Change | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

The upshot, however, is that the fundamental status contest is the same in each place, and the game’s conventions are arbitrary. The options at Harvard for charting a future path, choosing a field of study, or even balancing extra-curricular activities with unstructured time present themselves within...

Author: By Max J Kornblith | Title: The More Things Change | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

The fire alarm goes off in the Science Center, and one-by-one, the 250 people in my class have their attentions pulled away from the behavior of eukaryotic cells. The head TF gets on the microphone, “Everyone keep your exams with you and head to your...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly | Title: The Roof, The Roof Is On Fire | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

When the first group reaches the doors, they open them to find the Science Center literally ablaze (something involving the Indian food at the Greenhouse Café). As rafters fall from the ceiling, and freshman start taking cellphone pictures of a melting MacBook, I try to make my way out...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly | Title: The Roof, The Roof Is On Fire | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

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