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...past several years, the financial industry has provided employment to a shockingly large segment of Harvard graduates. Consulting and financial services companies commanded the services of 39 percent of workforce-bound graduates last year, and 47 percent the year before that...
...there is still something tragic about the mass migration into banking—the tragedy of unfulfilled dreams. It may seem surprising that, on a campus seemingly dominated by the specter of e-recruiting, only four percent of students cite investment banking as their dream job. This confirms what many have guessed: For whatever reason, be it money, prestige, or just convenience, students are drawn into finance despite having aspirations that lie elsewhere...
...said a committee is currently fine-tuning the details of “two halves” of the parental accommodation policy: providing access to affordable childcare and paid time off for new student parents. According to the report issued by the Joint Student Committee on Parental Accommodation, 50 percent of surveyed GSAS student parents saw their stipends lapse while on leave and 40 percent were unsatisfied with the childcare they were able to afford. The report—authored by members from the Graduate Student Council and Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering—surveyed 101 student...
...school has also seen a slight increase in the percentage of undergraduates interested in engineering—from 9.5 percent to 11 percent just in the past year—according to Venky...
...Although Al-Hajj is still trying to comprehend how his life was so drastically transformed, he says he believes he was targeted simply because he worked for Al Jazeera. "Ninety percent of my interrogations were about Al Jazeera," he told TIME earlier this month. "I was interrogated more than 200 times, even a few hours before my release. I kept telling them I was just a cameraman." Al-Hajj believes his arrest in Afghanistan was largely a result of bad timing. As the Taliban's control over Kandahar evaporated in December 2001, the Jazeera man joined dozens of other journalists...