Word: yourselfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are any number of ways to deal with it all. You can immerse yourself in the competition, becoming an expert at snowing interviewers and soliciting recommendations. Or you can forget about it all, and have a college career low in prestige but full of peace of mind.
Most of the information used for doing this comes from the description you write about yourself and the type of roommate you say you want. Many don't seem too particular, others have some definite requirements. Usually there are a number of rather unusual requests, too. This year, some one...
You may find yourself engaged in a conversation with a Harvard man who will tell you in all sincerity that the worst thing that ever happened to Eliot House was admitting women--a comment that the same person would not rephrase and foist upon a black man or woman.
You should need no reassurance that you are intelligent, but at Harvard you may find yourself judged in academic matters as a woman and not as a mind. You may be taught by a professor or a tutor who, for any number of reasons, simply doesn't like women and...
However, having achieved success in Harvard's terms, you may also find yourself face-to-face with the reminder, this time from your peers, that if you were a man it would be a cop-out to go to Law School. Only because you are a woman is it a...