Spring Break
50 Things You're Unlikely to Ever do Again Once You Leave HBS
(So You Should Enjoy Them While You Can)
By Alex Godden (OJ), Viewpoints Editor
Issue date: 10/22/07 Section: Viewpoints & Humor
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1. Sit in a room with the CEO of a company and tell them to their face that their strategy is stupid and will never work - with no repercussions.
2. Go away for a weekend with 90 people you only met a month ago, to a cottage in Vermont with only 60 beds.
3. Get up at 7am instead of 8am in order to pre-discuss stuff you're going to spend all day discussing.
4. Worry that you don't understand a description of changes in cranberry harvesting techniques.
5. Spend an hour earnestly arguing over the relative merits of a box of matches, a bottle of vodka and a compass.
6. Disagree with an ex-Navy Seal about whether you can survive on snow as your only source of water.
7. Acquire enough free management-related books to require a new bookshelf.
8. Not care about losing your keys because they security guard is always around on Campus anyway.
9. Live in an M&M world (RCs, wait for FIN2 if you don't get this one)
10. Go to a party organized by Australians at which everyone is dressed as a girl. And enjoy it.
11. Look up directly into the face of your professor and realize that you have no idea what you have just been asked, let alone what the class discussion is about, because you were too busy flirting with the cute guy sitting next to you.
12. Try and form an effective team composed of twelve people who have all self-identified as leaders.
13. Have an argument with someone about how fast you can strip (wires).
14. See one of your Professors wearing a hard hat.
15. Feel proud that your learning team can put LEDs on a board faster that the team you are paired with.
16. Use tunnels as your primary mode of travel for three whole months.
17. See every gap in your schedule of more than 30 minutes as a napping opportunity.
18. Try and come up with a 'strategy' for winning at cornhole.
19. Chase a turkey around an auditorium named after someone you've never heard of.
20. Watch 90 people giving your mom a standing ovation for nothing more than showing up.
2. Go away for a weekend with 90 people you only met a month ago, to a cottage in Vermont with only 60 beds.
3. Get up at 7am instead of 8am in order to pre-discuss stuff you're going to spend all day discussing.
4. Worry that you don't understand a description of changes in cranberry harvesting techniques.
5. Spend an hour earnestly arguing over the relative merits of a box of matches, a bottle of vodka and a compass.
6. Disagree with an ex-Navy Seal about whether you can survive on snow as your only source of water.
7. Acquire enough free management-related books to require a new bookshelf.
8. Not care about losing your keys because they security guard is always around on Campus anyway.
9. Live in an M&M world (RCs, wait for FIN2 if you don't get this one)
10. Go to a party organized by Australians at which everyone is dressed as a girl. And enjoy it.
11. Look up directly into the face of your professor and realize that you have no idea what you have just been asked, let alone what the class discussion is about, because you were too busy flirting with the cute guy sitting next to you.
12. Try and form an effective team composed of twelve people who have all self-identified as leaders.
13. Have an argument with someone about how fast you can strip (wires).
14. See one of your Professors wearing a hard hat.
15. Feel proud that your learning team can put LEDs on a board faster that the team you are paired with.
16. Use tunnels as your primary mode of travel for three whole months.
17. See every gap in your schedule of more than 30 minutes as a napping opportunity.
18. Try and come up with a 'strategy' for winning at cornhole.
19. Chase a turkey around an auditorium named after someone you've never heard of.
20. Watch 90 people giving your mom a standing ovation for nothing more than showing up.
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