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Harvard’s Office of Career Services is an excellent asset for students. Whether a student is looking for a summer internship, exploring career opportunities, or finding post-graduation employment, OCS has a wealth of readily accessible resources, including brochures, contacts, career counselors, and programs aimed at providing information about a broad range of career opportunities. However, many students will not use any of these resources. This is because one program, the On-Campus Recruiting Program, overshadows all the rest. OCR has detrimentally and unnecessarily influenced undergraduates’ conceptions of employment opportunities, and OCS needs to do more...
...letters to Santa. The mailbox has become the phone bill or catalogue box. Now that we have a multitude of online communication outlets, what will happen to the love letter (thank you “Sex and the City Movie”)? Now that we have Evite and Paperless Post, what will happen to attractive handwriting? Maybe someday we can read (from our Kindles) “The Collected emails, Myspace comments, Tweets, and online message board comments of Some Famous Author.”For those still holding out on me, here’s one last thing...
...depart from the academic bubble, the only quantitative measure available to translate the abstract concept of success into an intelligible form is money. Rather than engaging in the overwhelming process of defining success on their own terms, a significant number of Harvard students have accepted the easy equation of post-graduation achievement with a six-figure salary...
...Many students are also exploring other post-graduate opportunities including graduate or professional school, traveling, fellowships, and service-learning. Students are coming to understand that they can cast a wide net to gain skills and experience post-Harvard and that there are may areas where they can add value...
...Ashbery’s poems were published in the Advocate during his time at Harvard, but his real breakthrough came post-graduation. His poetic debut, “Some Trees,” was selected by Auden to be published as part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1956, kick-starting a prolific career distinguished by the release of another critically acclaimed work every few years. It was in 1975 that major recognition arrived, however, when he bagged all three of the nation’s major poetry prizes—the Pulitzer, the National Book Critics Circle...