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...filling out of forms, and cocktail hours. The idiotically outré final clubs are only the most obvious example. Many organizations and virtually all of our publications involve cuts and a comp. We prize meritocracy instead of democracy. We nervously judge each other. We have internalized the organization kid system...
...investment bankers or increased social opportunities in more welcoming settings. We are self-critical. We know that we would do well to think less about ourselves. We took pause at the painful irony of Opal Mehta-gate—the frenzy surrounding a book about an organization kid who learns to lighten up which was exposed as plaigarized and reviled in the media as the prototypical example of glory-mongering. The recent hunger strike for living wages showed that we as a student body want meaningful changes...
...Largely, I went with the organization-kid tide at Harvard. I over-did extracurriculars and elbowed for internships. I joined Teach for America, which caters to organization kids just like Goldman Sachs does. But sometimes, I felt that sinking feeling as I did in the pool: The system is sick, because of the organization kid mentality. I overheard one student describe writing a thesis as “Hoopes-ing it up.” I saw one student cry with envy when another student won a Rhodes scholarship. I know someone who took a class hoping that...
...They’ve got a tough job, but I haven’t seen that call in college football, in the Ivy League,” Murphy said after the game. “I still don’t know, the kid just celebrated, it was a great play.”A win at Dartmouth the next week—which also marked O’Hagan’s return as the starter—coupled with a Princeton loss gave the Crimson new life. An easy win against Columbia the following week set the stage...
...bittersweet way to end,” said Adomanis, who is a member of the Crimson editorial board. “Every kid, when they show up to college to be a rower, envisions themselves on the winner’s dock. But it was a good year and it was a fun year. We had a lot of chemistry together...