{"id":1097,"date":"2003-05-09T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-09T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/05\/halfway-there.html"},"modified":"2003-05-09T23:14:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-09T23:14:00","slug":"halfway-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/05\/halfway-there.html","title":{"rendered":"Halfway There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received a phone call this afternoon from Adam. &#8220;I just want you to know,&#8221; he said, &#8220;that Eugenia brought her baby to class, and it just made me realize how excited I am to be a parent, and I can&#8217;t wait to have this baby with you,&#8221; to which, of course, the only reply I could think of was, &#8220;How drunk are you?&#8221; &#8220;Not that much,&#8221; he said. That&#8217;s what I thought. Last day of classes for HBSers is not all that different from last day of classes for high school seniors.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently they spent their day drinking and reflecting on the past year. I have to say, the HBS reputation may be for arrogance and greed, but really, I haven&#8217;t seen so much of that. Self-congratulatory is more like it. Every event is a chance to celebrate the joy that is them, with songs and speeches and loud cheers. I&#8217;ll admit, I&#8217;ve grown fond of Adam&#8217;s section, although he asked me tonight if I felt like I was part of the section and the answer is a definite &#8220;no.&#8221; It&#8217;s been tough going getting to know them. I remember back to the beginning of the year when 99 percent of them would give me no more than a cursory &#8220;hello&#8221; and a once-over when they realized I wasn&#8217;t a student. I know that some of you out there reading this are just preparing to enter b-school and my warning to you guys would be be nice to the partners. You never know when one of them will be a blogger who will write nasty things about you.<\/p>\n<p>Would I have done it again, had I the choice? Probably, but I would have come more prepared. Has it been fun? Sure. I&#8217;ve gotten more material from these guys this past year, and there&#8217;s still the Newport Ball and all of next year to come. Am I going to keep asking myself questions? Yeah, because Adam&#8217;s already passed out so there&#8217;s no one else for me to have a conversation with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received a phone call this afternoon from Adam. &#8220;I just want you to know,&#8221; he said, &#8220;that Eugenia brought her baby to class, and it just made me realize how excited I am to be a parent, and I can&#8217;t wait to have this baby with you,&#8221; to which, of course, the only reply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}