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...about restaurant consulting?” they asked. No, no). I began pursuing the dream by stalking every friend of a cousin of a friend I could get my hands on. They, too, were often perplexed—“You seem to be right on the road to a fantastic career in journalism. Why not pursue that?” they asked. I crafted an answer and a cover letter to offer an explanation, and some of them even seemed convinced...
...course, could be answered, with a bit of persistence and some quality time on Google. But the question lingered. Am I not only avoiding the finance superhighway, but actually any real road out of the Ivory Tower altogether? More worrisome still, am I making a huge mistake...
...have forged ahead, however, talked to restaurateurs in what must be the hundreds, and now press closer (hopefully, someday, maybe) to securing a job for the now too-near future, my confidence in my own strange road is budding. It is odd, but exciting. A new twist. Refreshing. Kind of like a ham and cheese wrap-roll-up-sandwich on your last day in Barcelona...
Maybe that’s why so many of us choose to dedicate four weeks of our summer serving (for pay) in such menial capacities. In the rush of all the events during the school year, we never seem to have time to pause and step off the high road of the Harvard undergraduate. Through Dorm Crew, we are literally given the tools to broaden our minds, a ladder to descend from the ivory tower. Somewhere in that broom lies a life lesson that struggles to impart itself; we ought to be open enough to allow the humility of hard...
...agree with your opposition to renaming Plympton Street in honor of David Halberstam ‘55 (“A Road by Any Other Name,” editorial, April 16), despite the fact that David and I were close personal friends in Dunster House and on The Crimson, and that he was a magnificent reporter whose memory deserves to be honored...