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    That Book about Harvard: Surviving the World's Most Famous University, One Embarrassment at a Time
    That Book about Harvard: Surviving the World's Most Famous University, One Embarrassment at a Time
    That Book about Harvard: Surviving the World's Most Famous University, One Embarrassment at a Time
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    That Book about Harvard: Surviving the World's Most Famous University, One Embarrassment at a Time

    By Eric Kester

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    "Eric Kester has written the kind of book I wish I had the courage and insight to write. His illuminations on everything from Larry Summers to the Harvard football team to cheating, tourists, and competitiveness are dead–on. His writing has also provided me with some of the best laugh–out–loud moments I've had in recent years. God knows Harvard could use some humor!" —PETER OLSON, FORMER CEO OF RANDOM HOUSE, HARVARD GRADUATE, AND CURRENT HARVARD PROFESSOR

    One of the most thrilling and terrifying days of your life is the first day of college, when you step onto campus filled with the excitement of all the possibilities ahead—and panic about if you'll make it and how you'll fit in.

    Now imagine that same feeling, but you're in the middle of the lawn at the world's most prestigious university.

    In your underwear.

    Thus begins one of the craziest years ever at Harvard, in which Eric Kester finds himself in a cheating scheme, trying to join a prestigious Finals Club, and falling for a stunning type-A brunette...who happened to be standing there in shock that first day when he made his red-faced stroll across the Harvard Yard.

    That Book about Harvard is the hilarious and heartwarming story of trying to find your place in a new world, the unending quest to fit in, and how the moments that change your life often happen in the most unexpected ways.

    Eric Kester graduated from Harvard in 2008, where he wrote a popular column for the undergraduate newspaper, the Crimson. Now a featured writer for CollegeHumor.com, Eric has also contributed to the Boston Globe, someEcards.com, and Dorkly.com.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSourcebooks
    Release dateJul 1, 2012
    ISBN9781402267512
    That Book about Harvard: Surviving the World's Most Famous University, One Embarrassment at a Time
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    Eric Kester

    Eric Kester's writing can be found in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, and other publications. Eric used to work as a ball boy for the NFL and he played football at Harvard. He teaches and lives in Boston with his family. Gut Check is his debut children's novel.

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      It was comical and I learned what Harvard was like as a university.
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      At first, you can feel the humiliation the author had faced. Toward the end, this book somehow is like a book about "How I Met Your Mother.... at Harvard".

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