Category: Humor

Getting Hot in Hanover: HBS’s Sexiest Join other B-Schools for the Tuck Winter Carnival

The weekend of February 24, 20 brave HBS students and partners travelled 130 miles to Hanover, NH to join 15 other business schools for the annual Tuck Winter Carnival. Although a late start from Boston stretched the drive to 4 hours for some of the team, others arrived on time for the Welcome “TuckTails” (the… Continue reading Getting Hot in Hanover: HBS’s Sexiest Join other B-Schools for the Tuck Winter Carnival

Valentine’s Day is Here – Don’t Be a Tryhard

So Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and you have started to stress about what to wear for the big date night. All the magazines tell you to wear something red or pink and uber-feminine, but does anything scream more “OMG, I am so glad it’s Valentine’s Day, I have been waiting for this day… Continue reading Valentine’s Day is Here – Don’t Be a Tryhard

Harbus Mixtape: December 2011 Concert Series

 Newsflash: Most bands aren’t super psyched about touring in Boston when it’s cold and when students, for the most part, aren’t around. There are still, however, a couple of acts coming through town in early December that are worth seeing – give yourself a break from exams and papers and check them out! Wed, Dec.… Continue reading Harbus Mixtape: December 2011 Concert Series

Harbus Mixtape: November 2011 Concert Series

This month’s mixtape spans the genre gamut from electrofunk to alt-country to trip-hop and includes representation from exotic international locales such as Canada, the UK, Australia, and France (okay, I guess they’re not that exotic). Anyway, we’ve got another phenomenal month of concerts here in Boston with enough variety to please almost every musical taste… Continue reading Harbus Mixtape: November 2011 Concert Series

Harbus Mixtape: October 2011 Concert Series

Welcome back to another edition of the Harbus Mixtape. This coming month has a whole new batch of great concerts, and from the looks of it, I’m going to be spending almost as much time at the Paradise Rock Club in October as I will be in Aldrich. Check out  //bit.ly/HarbusMixtapeOct  to listen to curated mixtape… Continue reading Harbus Mixtape: October 2011 Concert Series

Harbus Mixtape: September 2011 Concert Series

  Ah, September. With the end of summer comes the beginning of school, with the beginning of school comes the flood of students, and with the flood of students comes the throng of bands hoping to capture the ticket, t-shirt, and ‘Gansett revenues that a trip to Beantown promises. A number of fantastic artists are… Continue reading Harbus Mixtape: September 2011 Concert Series

Book Review of Zero-Sum Game: The Rise of the World’s Largest Derivatives Exchange

Most people think of New York City as the world’s financial hub, but the reality is that increasingly critical pillars of global financial markets stand—and have always stood—in Chicago.  Zero-Sum Game is a very well-written, gripping tale about the largest M&A deal to date in the exchange industry—a 2007 merger between century-old competitors that took… Continue reading Book Review of Zero-Sum Game: The Rise of the World’s Largest Derivatives Exchange

Advice and Goodbyes

Last week, struggling through a painful day because I attended Brown Sugar (no – not my skin tone, but the party AASU and SABA throw each semester – it would be pretty weird and somewhat intriguing if I attended my skin tone, but that’s not the point), I realized something: I only have two columns… Continue reading Advice and Goodbyes

Somewhere over the Footbridge Flies High

From April 11th to April 15th, Somewhere over the Footbridge will take HBS by storm. Hundreds of students will have the privilege of viewing the product of months of diligent work by some of HBS’s most talented writers, dancers, and singers, not to mention a host of others working behind the scenes to ensure the… Continue reading Somewhere over the Footbridge Flies High

Newport Ball

Attention: RCs.  I want to go with YOU to Newport Ball.  That’s right – I want YOU to invite ME to the end of the year dance. I hate to be so blunt, but time is of the essence, and subtly has never been my forte (as has been explained to me post rejection at… Continue reading Newport Ball

Senior Scramble

Why am I writing this column in just 45 minutes?  Why have I deemed you, my loyal readers, only worthy of ¾ of an hour? Is it my Competing through Social Networks project? While important – no – it’s not that. Is it the vacationing that accompanied a bevy of three day weekends and spring… Continue reading Senior Scramble

Rejection

Last week while walking through Aldrich, I overheard two RCs talking: “That dating guy, you know the one who writes those funny columns?” said the first RC. “Um, ya, the Kwama Sutra,” responded her friend. “Right. He’s extremely cute, and I hear he’s charming and charismatic, but he writes about being rejected all the time.… Continue reading Rejection

10 Easy Ways to be More Frugal at HBS

At first glance, it may seem as though frugality and HBS are incompatible. After all, HBS students pay significant amounts of money for tuition, housing, and lavish travels. Yet frugality goes beyond the definition of penny-pinching. It is a philosophy by which people acquire and use their resources wisely to achieve their long term goals.… Continue reading 10 Easy Ways to be More Frugal at HBS

Friendships

“So you’re telling me you could be attracted to me, but because we are friends, not be romantically interested in me?” I said, with a mix of frustration and intrigue. “This is about as logical as investing in a subprime mortgage loan,” I continued, using a surprisingly apropos financial markets analogy, given my lack of… Continue reading Friendships

Deadbeat Harbus Rep

Hello classmates. Look at your Deadbeat Harbus Representative. Now back to me. Now back to your representative. Now back to me. Sadly, they aren’t me. But if they got off their lazy ass and started contributing to the Harbus, they could write like they’re me. Or they could write like they’re themselves. Or they could… Continue reading Deadbeat Harbus Rep

Kwamukkah?

Sing it with me: It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas (and let’s not forget all of the other religious holidays) at HBS. Fine – I’ll stop with the songs. Nevertheless, soon the snow will indeed make our campus nice and serene.   Men will aim to conceal their increasingly large beer bellies under sweaters,… Continue reading Kwamukkah?