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...Mike S. Goonan ’05 takes his sweet time getting ready in the morning. “There’s no point in looking frumpy when you can easily look nice,” he says. His day begins with a twenty-five minute long shower with lots of shampoo, conditioner and other fragrant products. He gets out of the shower and ponders what he is going to wear for the day, not an easy—or short—task. “For me it depends on weather, what...
Michael S. Goonan ’05, a chemistry concentrator in Pforzheimer House, doubts that schadenfreude is as pervasive as Peter wants us to believe. Over the past five semesters, Goonan has regularly notified students that they have not earned a spot in The Opportunes—a task he dreads. Each fall, 90-110 students apply for roughly four openings in the group. During the first three nights of auditions, lists of students advancing to the next round are posted on the Internet, minimizing personal contact and making the process “pretty painless” for Goonan...
...Goonan touches on an important point: rejection is not strictly based on merit. It is also based on fit. For Peter and others, years of accumulated success have led them to mindlessly judge themselves based on measures respected within the academy—admissions, job offers and grades. But rejection at Harvard often extends beyond these matters and into areas where assessing merit is more difficult...