初生的牛犊不怕虎啊。不知道会不会死的很惨，至少发光了，比这版上不少光说不做的孬种强。 ———— Leadership means more than simply climbing to the top and staying there. Leadership shouldn’t be about the title of your position; leadership should be about what you do for those you serve. Michael Cheng Harvard student
“Studying History was the single best decision I made at Harvard. History was my coming of age experience; history helped me appreciate the complex, organic nature of societies, mature as a person, build character, and develop intellectual independence and creativity. History opened my eyes to the world, taking me as far as Buenos Aires and Taipei, and gave me the courage to take bold risks, such as walking on to Harvard’s varsity rowing team.”
“Studying History was the single best decision I made at Harvard. History was my coming of age experience; history helped me appreciate the complex, organic nature of societies, mature as a person, build character, and develop intellectual independence and creativity. History opened my eyes to the world, taking me as far as Buenos Aires and Taipei, and gave me the courage to take bold risks, such as walking on to Harvard’s varsity rowing team.” lamerlamer 发表于 2021-12-05 09:38
他要没那勇气，估计也不会当上哈佛学生会主席。俺承认个人的魅力是双刃剑。但是考虑那么多作甚？先勇往直前 ————— 学生会的伎俩看起来很熟悉啊 During this year’s election, the council’s leaders faced attacks from multiple candidates, including me, who argued that Harvard’s student government was wasteful, ineffective and ought to be drastically reformed. In response, council leaders tried to cling to power. Ten days before the election date, members of the council passed retroactive rules allowing the “independent” Election Commission to disqualify candidates for arbitrary reasons, which included “violations of the spirit of the election rules” and campaigning before an official start date that was established only in the new regulations. Although I dodged disqualification, there were other tricks. When the election opened, the check box next to my name was obscured on the ballot, making it difficult for students to vote for me. When the Election Commission was asked about the error partway through the voting period, it said the problem had been corrected (it hadn’t) and that “all votes casted thus far” would be counted. The commission changed its mind only after a flood of messages urged it to restart the election with a fair ballot. On Nov. 13, I was elected president of the Undergraduate Council. A Harvard Crimson editorial called the decision a “vote of no confidence” in the student government. Instead of listening to constituents, the Undergraduate Council’s leaders immediately began doing everything they could to undermine the election results. Most notably, the Council’s lame-duck president and vice president submitted a bill to prevent students from amending their own student government’s constitution, and make meaningful constitutional changes impossible without a supermajority of student government leaders. True, this is only student government, not Congress. What are the stakes? Vending machines? Free doughnuts?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/leadership-and-dirty-tricks-at-harvard-election-votes-university-11638220916 ‘Leadership’ and Dirty Tricks at Harvard The student council’s extreme measures to stave off a ‘vote of no confidence.’ By Michael Cheng Nov. 29, 2021 6:19 pm
“Studying History was the single best decision I made at Harvard. History was my coming of age experience; history helped me appreciate the complex, organic nature of societies, mature as a person, build character, and develop intellectual independence and creativity. History opened my eyes to the world, taking me as far as Buenos Aires and Taipei, and gave me the courage to take bold risks, such as walking on to Harvard’s varsity rowing team.” lamerlamer 发表于 2021-12-05 09:38
今年还有一位华裔 Carina Letong Hong named a 2022 Rhodes Scholar for China The MIT junior will pursue graduate studies in mathematics at Oxford University. Julia Mongo | Distinguished Fellowships Publication Date : November 17, 2021 CAPTION: CARINA HONG CREDITS: IMAGE: IAN MACLELLAN CARINA LETONG HONG FROM GUANGZHOU, CHINA, IS A WINNER OF THE RHODES SCHOLARSHIP (CHINA CONSTITUENCY). AS A RHODES SCHOLAR, SHE WILL PURSUE GRADUATE STUDIES IN MATHEMATICS AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY. AT MIT, HONG IS A JUNIOR DOUBLE-MAJORING IN MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS. SHE HOPES TO BECOME AN ACADEMIC AND DEVOTE HER LIFE TO SOLVING CONJECTURES AND BUILDING COMMUNITIES.
“Studying History was the single best decision I made at Harvard. History was my coming of age experience; history helped me appreciate the complex, organic nature of societies, mature as a person, build character, and develop intellectual independence and creativity. History opened my eyes to the world, taking me as far as Buenos Aires and Taipei, and gave me the courage to take bold risks, such as walking on to Harvard’s varsity rowing team.” lamerlamer 发表于 2021-12-05 09:38
WSJ政治立场偏右，他们的opinioin经常有很多很有意思而又颇受争议的文章，比如虎妈Amy Chau endorse川普任命的大法官kavanaugh: https://www.wsj.com/articles/kavanaugh-is-a-mentor-to-women-1531435729 Kavanaugh Is a Mentor To Women I can’t think of a better judge for my own daughter’s clerkship. By Amy Chua July 12, 2018 6:48 pm ET Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh meets with U.S. senators in Washington, July 12. PHOTO: MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA-EFE/REX/SHU/EPA/SHUTTERSTOCK Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s jurisprudence will appropriately be dissected in the months ahead. I’d like to speak to a less well-known side of the Supreme Court nominee: his role as a mentor for young lawyers, particularly women. The qualities he exhibits with his clerks may provide important evidence about the kind of justice he would be. I’ve gotten to know this side of Judge Kavanaugh while serving on Yale Law School’s Clerkships Committee for most of the past 10 years. It also affects me personally: Last year my daughter accepted an appellate clerkship from Judge Kavanaugh, which was set to begin next month. A judicial clerkship is typically a one-year stint after law school. Federal appellate judges usually have three to four clerks at a time. Clerks help the judge to prepare for argument, analyze cases and write opinions Many judges use ideological tests in hiring clerks. Judge Kavanaugh could not be more different. While his top consideration when hiring is excellence—top-of-the-class grades, intellectual rigor—he actively seeks out clerks from across the ideological spectrum who will question and disagree with him. He wants to hear other perspectives before deciding a case. Above all, he believes in the law and wants to figure out, without prejudging, what it requires. Judge Kavanaugh’s clerks are racially and ethnically diverse. Since joining the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2006, a quarter of his clerks have been members of a minority group. More than half, 25 out of 48, have been women. In 2014, all four were women—a first for any judge on the D.C. Circuit. In the past decade, I have helped place 10 Yale Law School students with Judge Kavanaugh, eight of them women. I recently emailed them to ask about their clerkship experiences. They all responded almost instantaneously. They cited his legendary work ethic (“He expected us to work really hard, but there was always one person working harder than us—the Judge”), his commitment to excellence (“he wants every opinion that comes out of his chambers to be perfect; it is not uncommon to go through 30-50 drafts”), his humility (“He can take a great joke just as easily as he can land one”), and his decency (“I’ve never seen him be rude to anyone in the building”). To a person, they described his extraordinary mentorship. “When I accepted his offer to clerk,” one woman wrote, “I had no idea I was signing up for a lifelong mentor who feels an enduring sense of responsibility for each of his clerks.” Another said: “I can’t imagine making a career decision without his advice.” And another: “He’s been an incredible mentor to me despite the fact that I’m a left-of-center woman. He always takes into account my goals rather than giving generic advice.” These days the press is full of stories about powerful men exploiting or abusing female employees. That makes it even more striking to hear Judge Kavanaugh’s female clerks speak of his decency and his role as a fierce champion of their careers. If the judge is confirmed, my daughter will probably be looking for a different clerkship. But for my own daughter, there is no judge I would trust more than Brett Kavanaugh to be, in one former clerk’s words, “a teacher, advocate, and friend.” Ms. Chua is a professor at Yale Law School and author, most recently, of “Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations.”
这种要从小培养胆大，敢speakup，assertive，Someone who is assertive behavesconfidently and is not frightened to say what they want or believe: If you really want the promotion, you'll have to be more assertive. 从小就要练，小时候说话，没啥大事，说错得罪人习惯了也没啥，长大就敢说，也学会啥时候说。美国人的政治是confrontational, 总是要得罪人的，但别personal，就事论事，不过斗了多了，怎么能不personal？所以勇气特重要，当然如果有自己的team更好。 还有一个诀窍，比如说公司，机构很多人，制度已经如此，怎么解决？就要逮住机会，把事情闹大。 事情闹大了，就必须有人解决，解决的方式必须是相对公平，有说法过的去，毕竟事情大了，每个人都在看，领导也不敢乱来。 问题是，你敢把事情闹大吗？这个ABC采取的方式就是把事情闹大。
我的经验：给WSJ WAPO NYT 这些投opinions的稿子，一般成功率很低，但可以精准地找到对这类话题感兴趣的编辑发私信做brief，或者通过熟人找到编辑或记者，有时他们会给一些修改意见。 总体opinions的版块，喜欢发有争议的、能引起关注的文章，纯粹个人立场，相对宽松，观点本身有吸引力是关键，当然流畅优秀的行文不用说了。
读者的评论很有意思啊，摘几条。 Mr. Cheng's name hints of Asian origin. Isn't this the ethnic group Harvard discriminates against? Not surprising the Undergraduate Council is employing dirty tricks against him. In their minds he probably shouldn't have been admitted to Harvard. "Leadership means more than simply climbing to the top and staying there. Leadership shouldn’t be about the title of your position; leadership should be about what you do for those you serve." Mr. Cheng I find it astonishing that you have spent over three years at Harvard and still hold these values. You obviously have been blessed with amazing parents. It sounds as if some of these folks are well prepared to head down to Washington, D. C. after graduation. They ought to fit right in.
读者的评论很有意思啊，摘几条。 Mr. Cheng's name hints of Asian origin. Isn't this the ethnic group Harvard discriminates against? Not surprising the Undergraduate Council is employing dirty tricks against him. In their minds he probably shouldn't have been admitted to Harvard. "Leadership means more than simply climbing to the top and staying there. Leadership shouldn’t be about the title of your position; leadership should be about what you do for those you serve." Mr. Cheng I find it astonishing that you have spent over three years at Harvard and still hold these values. You obviously have been blessed with amazing parents. It sounds as if some of these folks are well prepared to head down to Washington, D. C. after graduation. They ought to fit right in. hermione918 发表于 2021-12-06 02:11
“Studying History was the single best decision I made at Harvard. History was my coming of age experience; history helped me appreciate the complex, organic nature of societies, mature as a person, build character, and develop intellectual independence and creativity. History opened my eyes to the world, taking me as far as Buenos Aires and Taipei, and gave me the courage to take bold risks, such as walking on to Harvard’s varsity rowing team.” lamerlamer 发表于 2021-12-05 09:38
Harvard University claims to produce future leaders. So do other colleges. But constantly telling young people they’re leaders seems to bring out some of their worst qualities. Harvard undergraduates routinely joke about their student government, the Undergraduate Council, which often appears to be a racket for politically ambitious students to accrue résumé lines and titles. The council has a record of waste and mismanagement; between spring 2017 and spring 2018 it lostmore than $100,000 in student-activity funds—the groups that got the money didn’t return it as unspent funds or submit valid receipts showing where it went. Even so, the student activities fee that funds council activities increased by 167% in fall 2018. During this year’s election, the council’s leaders faced attacks from multiple candidates, including me, who argued that Harvard’s student government was wasteful, ineffective and ought to be drastically reformed. In response, council leaders tried to cling to power. Ten days before the election date, members of the council passed retroactive rules allowing the “independent” Election Commission to disqualify candidates for arbitrary reasons, which included “violations of the spirit of the election rules” and campaigning before an official start date that was established only in the new regulations. Although I dodged disqualification, there were other tricks. When the election opened, the check box next to my name was obscured on the ballot, making it difficult for students to vote for me. When the Election Commission was asked about the error partway through the voting period, it said the problem had been corrected (it hadn’t) and that “all votes casted thus far” would be counted. The commission changed its mind only after a flood of messages urged it to restart the election with a fair ballot. On Nov. 13, I was elected president of the Undergraduate Council. A Harvard Crimson editorial called the decision a “vote of no confidence” in the student government. Instead of listening to constituents, the Undergraduate Council’s leaders immediately began doing everything they could to undermine the election results. Most notably, the Council’s lame-duck president and vice president submitted a bill to prevent students from amending their own student government’s constitution, and make meaningful constitutional changes impossible without a supermajority of student government leaders. True, this is only student government, not Congress. What are the stakes? Vending machines? Free doughnuts? Perhaps the willingness of some students to do whatever it takes for the right résumé lines relates to the unspoken assumption that all college students must be future leaders. College students rarely get the chance to think about whether that’s even something they want; they often aspire to leadership positions before thinking about what the responsibility really means. Leadership means more than simply climbing to the top and staying there. Leadership shouldn’t be about the title of your position; leadership should be about what you do for those you serve. Mr. Cheng is a senior at Harvard College studying history and mathematics.
“If you’re growing up with security measures at airports and large public spaces, and there are some people around who are afraid of tall buildings, it feels normal, like it’s always been this way.” - Michael Cheng ’
这还没完，现任学生会主席和领导们给他下绊子，让他就算上任后也会被掣肘。一般人会咋样办？想办法分化瓦解，慢慢拉多数领导团体到自己这边呗。人家这孩子硬是不服，跑去Wall Street Journal 发表大字报，更是把事件升华到对精英大学包括哈佛盲目要求学生领导船的文化的批判。
学生会内斗，去校内报纸发个评论硬钢常见，然而影响力有限。人家这孩子想到去WSJ 发，而且说服了WSJ 学生会选举的事也有重大意义，这下保证了学校领导看得见，donors 看得见，他和学生会领导的未来雇主和投资人也能看见，舆论效果绝对强出校报影响百倍。
唉，人家这种孩子大概是自推娃吧？因为我想不出父母能怎样推才能推出这样的。
投稿啊，选wsj而不是选nyt或wapo
这个孩子的背景
———— Leadership means more than simply climbing to the top and staying there. Leadership shouldn’t be about the title of your position; leadership should be about what you do for those you serve.
Michael Cheng Harvard student
是2代abc么？华尔街发表他的文章，那也是华尔街接受他的理念了。寻常人投稿，华尔街给随便发表么
怕这怕那，
在学校里被前任学生会的人搞死就不惨么？
不生不死，
你干脆别出生算了
这是学到历史的精髓了。
他要没那勇气，估计也不会当上哈佛学生会主席。俺承认个人的魅力是双刃剑。但是考虑那么多作甚？先勇往直前
————— 学生会的伎俩看起来很熟悉啊
During this year’s election, the council’s leaders faced attacks from multiple candidates, including me, who argued that Harvard’s student government was wasteful, ineffective and ought to be drastically reformed. In response, council leaders tried to cling to power. Ten days before the election date, members of the council passed retroactive rules allowing the “independent” Election Commission to disqualify candidates for arbitrary reasons, which included “violations of the spirit of the election rules” and campaigning before an official start date that was established only in the new regulations. Although I dodged disqualification, there were other tricks. When the election opened, the check box next to my name was obscured on the ballot, making it difficult for students to vote for me. When the Election Commission was asked about the error partway through the voting period, it said the problem had been corrected (it hadn’t) and that “all votes casted thus far” would be counted. The commission changed its mind only after a flood of messages urged it to restart the election with a fair ballot.
On Nov. 13, I was elected president of the Undergraduate Council. A Harvard Crimson editorial called the decision a “vote of no confidence” in the student government. Instead of listening to constituents, the Undergraduate Council’s leaders immediately began doing everything they could to undermine the election results. Most notably, the Council’s lame-duck president and vice president submitted a bill to prevent students from amending their own student government’s constitution, and make meaningful constitutional changes impossible without a supermajority of student government leaders. True, this is only student government, not Congress. What are the stakes? Vending machines? Free doughnuts?
无论如何，希望这样有出息的孩子越多越好！！！
这孩子大学了还不会游泳，然后自学游泳。很少中上产家庭的孩子会小时候没学过游泳，而想学游泳时不是请个私教而是自己扑腾的吧？所以家境大概不是很特殊吧？
我家的，哈哈
刚想说跟他的历史专业背景有关
这是个神片 里面三个学生竞选演讲那段 真是精彩
啥时候游泳也成了判断家庭经济的条件了
他好像是费城那边公立学校出来的，那间学校好像还不错
https://www.niche.com/k12/lower-merion-high-school-ardmore-pa/
餐几代也是有可能的。餐代即便开到连锁的，也都不一定有那精力/想法带孩子学游泳。弹钢琴的可能有。
哈哈哈，也是城友？
November 17, 2021
CARINA HONG CREDITS :
IMAGE: IAN MACLELLAN
CARINA LETONG HONG FROM GUANGZHOU, CHINA, IS A WINNER OF THE RHODES SCHOLARSHIP (CHINA CONSTITUENCY). AS A RHODES SCHOLAR, SHE WILL PURSUE GRADUATE STUDIES IN MATHEMATICS AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY. AT MIT, HONG IS A JUNIOR DOUBLE-MAJORING IN MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS. SHE HOPES TO BECOME AN ACADEMIC AND DEVOTE HER LIFE TO SOLVING CONJECTURES AND BUILDING COMMUNITIES.
关键词:Taipei, 看来很可能是台湾二代，搞政治的mindset跟大陆人肯定不太一样，你们不要太激动了。
https://www.wsj.com/articles/kavanaugh-is-a-mentor-to-women-1531435729
Kavanaugh Is a Mentor To Women I can’t think of a better judge for my own daughter’s clerkship. By Amy Chua July 12, 2018 6:48 pm ET
Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s jurisprudence will appropriately be dissected in the months ahead. I’d like to speak to a less well-known side of the Supreme Court nominee: his role as a mentor for young lawyers, particularly women. The qualities he exhibits with his clerks may provide important evidence about the kind of justice he would be.
I’ve gotten to know this side of Judge Kavanaugh while serving on Yale Law School’s Clerkships Committee for most of the past 10 years. It also affects me personally: Last year my daughter accepted an appellate clerkship from Judge Kavanaugh, which was set to begin next month.
A judicial clerkship is typically a one-year stint after law school. Federal appellate judges usually have three to four clerks at a time. Clerks help the judge to prepare for argument, analyze cases and write opinions
Many judges use ideological tests in hiring clerks. Judge Kavanaugh could not be more different. While his top consideration when hiring is excellence—top-of-the-class grades, intellectual rigor—he actively seeks out clerks from across the ideological spectrum who will question and disagree with him. He wants to hear other perspectives before deciding a case. Above all, he believes in the law and wants to figure out, without prejudging, what it requires.
Judge Kavanaugh’s clerks are racially and ethnically diverse. Since joining the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2006, a quarter of his clerks have been members of a minority group. More than half, 25 out of 48, have been women. In 2014, all four were women—a first for any judge on the D.C. Circuit.
In the past decade, I have helped place 10 Yale Law School students with Judge Kavanaugh, eight of them women. I recently emailed them to ask about their clerkship experiences. They all responded almost instantaneously. They cited his legendary work ethic (“He expected us to work really hard, but there was always one person working harder than us—the Judge”), his commitment to excellence (“he wants every opinion that comes out of his chambers to be perfect; it is not uncommon to go through 30-50 drafts”), his humility (“He can take a great joke just as easily as he can land one”), and his decency (“I’ve never seen him be rude to anyone in the building”).
To a person, they described his extraordinary mentorship. “When I accepted his offer to clerk,” one woman wrote, “I had no idea I was signing up for a lifelong mentor who feels an enduring sense of responsibility for each of his clerks.” Another said: “I can’t imagine making a career decision without his advice.” And another: “He’s been an incredible mentor to me despite the fact that I’m a left-of-center woman. He always takes into account my goals rather than giving generic advice.”
These days the press is full of stories about powerful men exploiting or abusing female employees. That makes it even more striking to hear Judge Kavanaugh’s female clerks speak of his decency and his role as a fierce champion of their careers.
If the judge is confirmed, my daughter will probably be looking for a different clerkship. But for my own daughter, there is no judge I would trust more than Brett Kavanaugh to be, in one former clerk’s words, “a teacher, advocate, and friend.”
Ms. Chua is a professor at Yale Law School and author, most recently, of “Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations.”
一般美国华人中产家庭的小孩，没见过不会游泳的，都是小时候学的。华人孩子从小学个十几样东西（才艺加体育），基本是普遍现象吧。
能让WSJ替他发声牛逼大了 毕竟历史和数学就是情商和智商的双高峰啊
富人区，大家管那家高中叫country club
也有小孩不喜欢游泳不学的，怎么就成一个判断标准了
湾二代也没关系，也是华人的优秀者。如果以后从政，出卖华人特别是大陆华人期获他的政治资本，那就是大陆华人的噩梦。 看看美国湾几代的从政者，基本在出卖大陆华人讨好其他族裔
从小就要练，小时候说话，没啥大事，说错得罪人习惯了也没啥，长大就敢说，也学会啥时候说。美国人的政治是confrontational, 总是要得罪人的，但别personal，就事论事，不过斗了多了，怎么能不personal？所以勇气特重要，当然如果有自己的team更好。
还有一个诀窍，比如说公司，机构很多人，制度已经如此，怎么解决？就要逮住机会，把事情闹大。
事情闹大了，就必须有人解决，解决的方式必须是相对公平，有说法过的去，毕竟事情大了，每个人都在看，领导也不敢乱来。
问题是，你敢把事情闹大吗？这个ABC采取的方式就是把事情闹大。
握个手，同样希望华人孩子们都能有出息！！！
我的经验：给WSJ WAPO NYT 这些投opinions的稿子，一般成功率很低，但可以精准地找到对这类话题感兴趣的编辑发私信做brief，或者通过熟人找到编辑或记者，有时他们会给一些修改意见。
总体opinions的版块，喜欢发有争议的、能引起关注的文章，纯粹个人立场，相对宽松，观点本身有吸引力是关键，当然流畅优秀的行文不用说了。
"Leadership means more than simply climbing to the top and staying there. Leadership shouldn’t be about the title of your position; leadership should be about what you do for those you serve." Mr. Cheng I find it astonishing that you have spent over three years at Harvard and still hold these values. You obviously have been blessed with amazing parents.
It sounds as if some of these folks are well prepared to head down to Washington, D. C. after graduation. They ought to fit right in.
Leadership
😂
扯蛋，清北2代才不会这样，餐2代弯弯2代臭港2代最喜欢投机取巧
啊。。有的说得还挺有道理的
太赞了！我历史就学了时间地点人物事件。然后考完就忘了。所以基本就没学到啥
During this year’s election, the council’s leaders faced attacks from multiple candidates, including me, who argued that Harvard’s student government was wasteful, ineffective and ought to be drastically reformed. In response, council leaders tried to cling to power. Ten days before the election date, members of the council passed retroactive rules allowing the “independent” Election Commission to disqualify candidates for arbitrary reasons, which included “violations of the spirit of the election rules” and campaigning before an official start date that was established only in the new regulations. Although I dodged disqualification, there were other tricks. When the election opened, the check box next to my name was obscured on the ballot, making it difficult for students to vote for me. When the Election Commission was asked about the error partway through the voting period, it said the problem had been corrected (it hadn’t) and that “all votes casted thus far” would be counted. The commission changed its mind only after a flood of messages urged it to restart the election with a fair ballot.
On Nov. 13, I was elected president of the Undergraduate Council. A Harvard Crimson editorial called the decision a “vote of no confidence” in the student government. Instead of listening to constituents, the Undergraduate Council’s leaders immediately began doing everything they could to undermine the election results. Most notably, the Council’s lame-duck president and vice president submitted a bill to prevent students from amending their own student government’s constitution, and make meaningful constitutional changes impossible without a supermajority of student government leaders. True, this is only student government, not Congress. What are the stakes? Vending machines? Free doughnuts? Perhaps the willingness of some students to do whatever it takes for the right résumé lines relates to the unspoken assumption that all college students must be future leaders. College students rarely get the chance to think about whether that’s even something they want; they often aspire to leadership positions before thinking about what the responsibility really means. Leadership means more than simply climbing to the top and staying there. Leadership shouldn’t be about the title of your position; leadership should be about what you do for those you serve. Mr. Cheng is a senior at Harvard College studying history and mathematics.