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• 27 Jul 11
  

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• 21 Jul 11
  

  nikerym

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  Rylan Young

  Paris Review – Harvard and Class, Misha Glouberman

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• 16 Jul 11
  

  Todd Suomela

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  • When I applied, I thought it would be great because I would get to meet lots of smart people. Those were the kinds of people I liked to be friends with, and I thought there would be more of them there. That was the main reason I thought it would be a fun place to be. I don’t think I was super ambitious or professional minded or even a very good student.

     

    The thing I figured out soon after I applied was that, on Gilligan’s Island, it wasn’t the Professor who went to Harvard, it was Mr. Howell, the rich man. That was something of a revelation.

     

    It’s funny, because what a lot of people talk about when they talk about going to Harvard is being really intimidated by the place when they arrive. I wasn’t at all intimidated by the place when I arrived—but I was really intimidated after graduating.
  • A thing that’s very nice and very terrible is that those class differences are very rarely talked about at Harvard. So you might have some sort of movie image where the snobs are sort of looking down their noses at the poor kids, but the reality is that once you’re at Harvard, no one’s a poor kid anymore. You’re all, instantly and at that moment, in one of the most privileged positions of the American upper class.
• 15 Jul 11
  

  Christina Gremore

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  David Wolf
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  Thomas James

  When I was at university, it shocked me how focused so many people were about their careers, in ways that often seemed pretty narrow. I guess I knew that Harvard attracts very ambitious young people, but I was still surprised. In Montreal I knew a lot of really interesting people doing interesting things, and there was a lot less of that at Harvard than I would have expected. In retrospect it’s not surprising. At a certain level, an institution like that is going to attract people who are very good at playing by the rules.
  
  

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• 13 Jul 11
  

  Stephen Jenkins

  Mr. Howell went to Harvard, not the Professor.

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  Jimmy Breeze

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  Olivier Torrente
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  Pranesh Prakash

  RT @thebookslut: rt @longreads "Harvard and Class." http://bit.ly/nj1UAi

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• 12 Jul 11
  

  Nathan Rein

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