About 20% of you will believe in the title. Other 80% of you reading this post are talkative.
As 50% of you reading this already know (Jose I bet you dint know), I am a small town guy who found himself in a big town school one day. And before I could say “Wha…Where…?”, I landed in one of the biggest cities in the world, NY. I needed things to slow down so I took a step back and got my boss to transfer me to Chicago.
Now I know I am not ambitious, but I like to think of myself as very driven and motivated. So I googled these keywords:
harvard admitted students class of 2006
And one of the links that showed up on the first page was “A Day in the Life” I was re-directed to this site by an involuntary action of my fist or my hand or my finger (I dont remember, which):
http://www.hbs.edu/mba/studentlife/lwilliamsditl.html
Okay, so I see Les singing “Hallelujah!” to his life in Harvard:
7:00 a.m. The alarm blares. I hit the snooze button.
7:07 a.m. The alarm blares. I hit the snooze button.
7:14 a.m. The alarm blares. I hit the snooze button.
As you can clearly see, the 3 very things that he does even before he wakes up in the morning are done with precision one after another, I wonder if he mentions this as one of his strengths in his app?
Lets skim right to 8:30
8:30 a.m. I high-five the cafeteria workers as I navigate through the fresh fruit bar and the English muffin station, grabbing a cup of water and a to-go bag as I dance out of the cafeteria in a frenzy. I was so wrapped up in e-mail this morning that I forgot about my study group review, which began at 8:10 a.m. No worries, I’ll catch them tomorrow.
Like Les says above, why worry about studies at Harvard; I am sure he based his decision on the fact that an alumni of Harvard is the President of our country, and “he is talkative, just like me!”
Okay, readers, lets go to 10:20 a.m. now where Les draws a parallel between a corporate high performer and a professional sportsman! Here, I have no words of praise for Les because his reasoning is flawed. He overlooks the basic fact that the first example talks of Employer-Employee relationship and the parallel he drew (very proudly) was of a Colleague-Colleague relationship. I guess the whole class was laughing at him but he took that as a gesture of appreciation…another strength that brought him to Harvard – “Don’t get bothered by Negatives.”
I was devouring the “Day in the Life” of Les at Harvard when at around 12:00 p.m. my ADD took over and I impulsively closed his blog. Before doing that, I couldn’t help going through the word “grab” in the post. If you do a word search, you will see Les has “grabbed” food articles and weights about 5 times in his “Day in the Life” at Harvard. And my skewed mind is thinking – “That meeting he had with the female student about some BBQ in which he agreed to run the idea with administration” – if we add the aftermaths of that appointment, the number of total grabs go up to 7.
Not bad. A Day in the Life at Harvard is not bad at all.
