2008 Woodie Awards
The "Aha" Moments at HBS-What Are You Doing to Scrape on a 24 Hour Day?
Aastha Gurbax (ND), Associate Editor
Issue date: 10/3/06 Section: Humor
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When your classmates reveal that they analyze cases during cab rides to the Latin Lust party (and stuff the LEAD case in their back pocket) and during a church wedding (while the minister married their best friend), you experience an "Aha" moment. You wonder, "Now, why didn't I think of that?''
Marilyn Monroe famously said "I've been on a calendar but I have never been on time." Monroe may have effortlessly gotten away with unpunctuality, but we mortal HBS RCs invite "the look" from professors when we walk into class 2 micro-seconds late, or get to be the proud dwellers of the lackluster carpet floor of Spangler auditorium because the seats invariably get filled up.
Isn't HBS a circus of shocks? The mechanical genius of the synchronized human blackboard wipers in Aldrich stupefies us. Discovering that 400 students can squeeze in the third floor hallway in SFP for a weekend RC party is better than learning that Tony Blair is finally stepping down as PM of Britain next year. Watching the manicured squirrels scuttle conscientiously across Spangler lawns is more fascinating than watching Pluto being dissed as a planet in the solar system.
The junior school drill is spellbinding as well-we go downtown to attend the SA party in school buses; we raise our hand to answer a question; we start clapping for no apparent reason; we queue up for freebies in the career fairs; and, most importantly, we cannot skip our daily homework!
When they said HBS was about making choices, who would have anticipated fundamental life-impacting lunch break choices on a three case day-catching a power nap in your dorm room vs. doing your monthly laundry vs. dissecting the latest issue of Vanity Fair. Some of us grapple with Polyphasic sleep (sleeping pattern that claims to reduce sleep to 2 to 5 hours a day) and others combine "brain-dead activities" (e.g. talking on the phone, walking to Aldrich and consuming your breakfast cereal simultaneously). Others even vouch for Eye Q (software application used to increase case-reading speed).
Marilyn Monroe famously said "I've been on a calendar but I have never been on time." Monroe may have effortlessly gotten away with unpunctuality, but we mortal HBS RCs invite "the look" from professors when we walk into class 2 micro-seconds late, or get to be the proud dwellers of the lackluster carpet floor of Spangler auditorium because the seats invariably get filled up.
Isn't HBS a circus of shocks? The mechanical genius of the synchronized human blackboard wipers in Aldrich stupefies us. Discovering that 400 students can squeeze in the third floor hallway in SFP for a weekend RC party is better than learning that Tony Blair is finally stepping down as PM of Britain next year. Watching the manicured squirrels scuttle conscientiously across Spangler lawns is more fascinating than watching Pluto being dissed as a planet in the solar system.
The junior school drill is spellbinding as well-we go downtown to attend the SA party in school buses; we raise our hand to answer a question; we start clapping for no apparent reason; we queue up for freebies in the career fairs; and, most importantly, we cannot skip our daily homework!
When they said HBS was about making choices, who would have anticipated fundamental life-impacting lunch break choices on a three case day-catching a power nap in your dorm room vs. doing your monthly laundry vs. dissecting the latest issue of Vanity Fair. Some of us grapple with Polyphasic sleep (sleeping pattern that claims to reduce sleep to 2 to 5 hours a day) and others combine "brain-dead activities" (e.g. talking on the phone, walking to Aldrich and consuming your breakfast cereal simultaneously). Others even vouch for Eye Q (software application used to increase case-reading speed).
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