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...person who is drawn into the underworld of unfaithful relationships. It’s the girl who seeks perfection in a lover; it’s the guy who always likes to feel in control. At Harvard we know competition and many of us know how to prioritize ourselves??€”our needs—above all. Brandt says Harvard couldn’t be a more ideal breeding ground for the psyche of the cheater—and looking at the real-life stories, it’s hard to disagree...
Let’s be honest with ourselves??€”there’s no shortage of arrogance among Harvard students. When you tell a room of science concentrators that statistically, two of them will win Nobel Prizes, each wonders who the other winner will be. This over-confidence allows us to accomplish great things, but it also causes us to cast furtive glances at our peers, sizing up and being sized up. But the downside to this arrogance and competitiveness is that many of us here at Harvard have fragile egos. The minute our gremlins pop our halos, we?...
...believe in lucky gremlins. Because the truth is, no one here is completely secure, and we have a tendency to be too hard on ourselves??€”alright, some of us have a tendency to be too hard on ourselves. We may be constructing illusions, but our endless self-examination is no more real. Placing the blame on something else is far healthier than endlessly beating ourselves...