Word: offing
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The upshot of this is that as the process continues, you think you're getting rooked. You worked hard during college, yet you look around at the job offers others are landing and think to yourself, "Good Christ. These people can't carry my intellectual jockstrap. How in the world...
What you don't realize, of course, is that people are saying the same thing about you. And in effect, you played the same game--calling people you know at various firms, getting your name out there, talking the talk and eventually getting the job. Either explicitly or implicitly, it...
Of course, there are exceptions to this rule. When applying to grad schools, for example, you're just another application, a set of numbers. You might get an interview in which you can show off your personality, but even the smoothest of cats can't charm his way into Yale...
A lot of people have a tough time accepting this fact--that for all of their hard work, they might not get as sweet a deal as those who know more people, even if the latter don't shine as brightly in the classroom. This, I think, is the rationale...
Yet for all the denunciations of final clubs and their ilk, their detractors play the same game. Everyone does. It might not be as obvious, but every single organization on campus is, in effect, a jumping-off point for making and using connections. Every group, from the Juggling Club to...