Everything I learned at MIT and HBS

I  recently got my Harvard MBA attended some classes at Harvard Business School. Because I bore easily,  I also got an engineering degree at went to some classes at MIT. I may have been wearing the cutest outfit in the room but these people are so damn smart they didn’t notice. These people think so fast and are so smart, I found myself silent in ways I so seldom am. When I realized they could also be charming and funny, I considered jumping off a bridge. Hey, that’s my thing. You are not allowed to have all. 

mit-nancy

acting like you belong is 9/10ths of the law

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serious business

 

The doorbell rings at art camp and it is a parent picking up two hours early.

We are in the middle of something very serious. You may come in but you will have to be silent.

On the floor, lying side by side, are all 10 children. Towels are covering their bodies to the neck. Towels are covering their heads to the lips. At first glance it looks alarmingly like an odd  morgue.

The mom has a good sense of humour but I can feel her wondering wtf.

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what’s in a name

I was in a car this week with 5 women. Two of us named Nancy.

Hey Nance someone said. I answered only they weren’t speaking to me.

What? Nance was the name my dad invented so he could call me Nancy when he was mad at me.

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