{"id":17330,"date":"2016-10-19T08:49:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T12:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=17330"},"modified":"2017-03-15T09:35:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T13:35:47","slug":"harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/19\/harvard\/","title":{"rendered":"HARVARD"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After college<\/strong><\/span> I returned to Cleveland and hung around Case Western Reserve University to keep my sanity. I wanted the college bubble. I was at Case every chance I got. At a Case party a medical illustrator asked me what I did, and I said, \u201cI manage apartment buildings.\u201d She walked away. Marcy — a friend at the party — said, \u201cIt\u2019s not in her experience — apartment building management.\u201d Marcy was a grad student in organizational behavior. I couldn\u2019t see grad school.<\/p>\n

A woman asked me, \u201cAre you in OB?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I\u2019m not in medical school.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOB is<\/strong><\/span> organizational behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not in that either.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"HarmonicaApartment building management.<\/em> What more could I say — want to hear my harmonica? I shut up. Docs, nutritionists, organizational behaviorists, and medical students. I went up to another medical illustrator. Illustrators are arty. She wouldn\u2019t talk to me. (Could have been other factors — not going there.)<\/p>\n

Marcy wrote her OB thesis on the “event of play in a closed group.\u201d For a while, I was in her closed group. Marcy’s parents had a mansion outside of New York City with a quarter-mile driveway. I never saw the house but I heard about it. Her dad was on the board of trustees of a major foreign university. I blew it.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many<\/strong><\/span> Harvard people here!\u201d a woman said, walking past Marcy and me. Three Harvard people: 1) The host, an OB grad student 2) my friend Marcy 3) a man who was on his way to D.C. to be a lobbyist. Harvard people were on their way, and I was in Cleveland, maybe forever. Tenants called about low water pressure and no heat. Tenants mailed in flecks of peeling paint with notes like “I”m taking $10 off my rent because of this.”<\/p>\n

I’m in real estate.<\/em> I say that now. It’s OK when you’re over 30. The night my father died, my mother and I spent hours sorting business checks on the dining room table, waiting to go to the funeral home. I’ve been dealing with bills ever since.<\/p>\n

I Googled Marcy. She\u2019s a professor at a college in Massachusetts. (Not Harvard.) I should message her. I won’t. Too awkward. Remembering this — also awkward.<\/p>\n

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\n A version of this post appeared in Belt Magazine 2\/19\/15.<\/small><\/i><\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

I had another op-ed<\/a> in the New York Times<\/em>, on Monday, about Trump, taxes and me. Hundreds of comments.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

I own the Times<\/em>. Sulzberger > Stratton. My dad did that name change.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Stratton

Stratton (white cap) surrounded by minority partners in NYT<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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