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by Marilinda Garcia, Culture Columnist on February 25, 2010 in Culture, Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down
A Guide to Grumblings and Gratifications at HKS
Email submissions to: marilinda_garcia@hks10.harvard.edu. Contributors will remain anonymous.
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To Valentine’s Day…pink and red are great colors and what a great excuse to go out and eat and drink too much.
To the unemployment rate dropping. This is, hopefully, good news for those of us graduating this year!
To snowwww!!!!!!!!!!! If you don’t like it, go ahead and submit your own thumbs opinion.
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To delayed registration…why, in the second week of classes, did we not yet have set schedules?
To the enormous cockroach terrorizing the newly renovated library. We preferred the cute field mouse that was there pre-renovation.
To redundancy in case studies for class. This is the third time I have been assigned the “Aravind Eye Hospital”…wasn’t once, maybe twice, enough?
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by Victoria Criado, Editor-in-Chief on February 11, 2010 in Culture, Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down
A Guide to Grumblings and Gratifications at HKS
Email submissions to: hkscitizen@gmail.com. Contributors will remain anonymous.
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To Melanie Vant’s leadership and amazing work in HKS for Haiti. Thank you for keeping us in the loop with such well-crafted and clear emails.
To the new library – the space looks great and it feels less crowded. Thank you HKS Administation!
To KSSG President Dave Baumwoll: you promised a State of the School address and you delivered.
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To low student attendance at the State of the School address. We can do better.
To students who talk in class more often than the professor – if we look annoyed while you’re on your fifth soliloquy of the day, that’s because we are annoyed.
To the people who still exit L140 through the wrong door. I guess big orange signs and the crowds being crushed into the doorway because of your erroneous departure just aren’t clear enough indicators.
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by Marilinda Garcia, Culture Columnist on December 17, 2009 in Culture, Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down
A Guide to Grumblings and Gratifications at HKS
Email submissions to: marilinda_garcia@hks10.harvard.edu. Contributors will remain anonymous.
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To Activities VP Angela Boyd for pulling off two fantastic and memorable HKS events without a hitch. Can’t wait for the Winter Formal!
To the winter renovation plans for the HKS library. It will be great to have more group and individual study space and seating, not to mention power outlets. Here’s to hoping for an increased number of staplers.
To raising resources and awareness for various male cancers.
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To the somewhat uninspired and sometimes bewildering Sodexho soup selections. What, exactly, should I expect “Hungarian Mushroom” to taste like?
To the people whom the librarians allege have stolen the staplers. Really, people?
To the hideous, and often very sketchy mustaches the men of HKS have been sporting this month.
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by Marilinda Garcia, Culture Columnist on November 1, 2009 in Culture, Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down
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To Shana Rabinowich, for diligently holding on to a student’s lost $10. Honesty seems to be in short supply these days - good to know HKS is breaking the norm.
To free food on Friday. There are days when you’re functioning at a low energy level, you just got out of a review session, and you feel like a veggie wrap. Be in the right place (the Forum) at the right time (2:30ish), and the miracle will probably happen.
For Professor Alan Trager taking the time to run the Public/Private Partnerships Study Group and making his experience available to students despite a demanding travel schedule.
To attending brown bags. You might end up locked far too cozily in a too small room with a seemingly random assemblage of strange people for an hour around lunchtime, but most of the time you are in for a captivating, thought-provoking, career-reshaping talk!
Thumbs Down:
For every iPod listener on the T who doesn’t care whether or not the musical garbage spewing out of their headphones is at a socially acceptable decibel level or polluting my ears.
To the people who don’t wash their hands before exiting the bathroom. Enough said.
To the constantly broken staplers in the HKS library. True, people shouldn’t try to cram 40 page documents between the delicate jaws of the device, but you’d think the school could procure at least a few backups.
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by Marilinda Garcia, Culture Columnist on September 30, 2009 in Culture, Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down
A Guide to Grumblings and Gratifications at HKS
Email submissions to: marilinda_garcia@hks10.harvard.edu. Contributors will remain anonymous.
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To Eric Edwards in the IT department. Pretty much the nicest, least condescending and helpful person around. If he can’t fix your tech problems, no one can.
To Angie (HKS security) who let me into the RG 20 classroom after hours to retrieve a bag I absolutely needed but absolutely forgot.
To the foreign film selection in the HKS library. There are some really good ones - we just need more.
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To the absolutely spastic air conditioning system HKS seems to have. Between that and the New England weather, on any given day I don’t know if I should wear a swimsuit or a snowsuit.
To the small plastic drinking cups near the cafeteria water cooler. Drinking from them gives me flashbacks to being in the dentist’s office.
To the gnarly odors wafting about HKS classrooms and Cambridge in general. I’m looking forward to winter for at least this: The cold kills bad odors and gross bugs.
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by Marilinda Garcia, Culture Columnist on September 16, 2009 in Culture, Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down
A Guide to Grumblings and Gratifications at HKS
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• For the return of the sliced chicken to the salad bar. Apparently Harvard is climbing out of the economic recession.
• To the amazing Orientation Leaders who managed to keep student introductions within the 20 second allotted time.
• To Debbie Isaacson, MPP Director, who demonstrated utmost dedication to her job by sending emails well into the wee hours of the night to assist disgruntled students during the stressful and arduous bidding process.
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• To the apparent administrative attempt to “phase out” MPP2s by not inviting them to the Dean’s BBQ, wreaking havoc on their list serve, and not offering them an HKS Picture Book.
• For the student who destroyed the siding on 8 Story Street House with a plastic bat, while incessantly trying to hit a piñata blindfolded. Was it the third time of hitting the exact same location that convinced you it probably wasn’t the piñata?
• To Pinocchio’s Pizza closing at 2:15 am while the hours posted on their door clearly say 2:30 am. Nothing starts the school year off right like a slice of pizza at that time of night. Seven-Eleven hotdogs just aren’t the same…the next morning.
• For the loss of student mailboxes. How are letters from secret admirers, candy, and graded stats problem sets going to be delivered?
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