Congratulation, Elric, you have the job. We were delighted with the quality of your experience and expertise shown in both your interview and your CV.
Your ability to cut through nonsense and get straight to the core of the matter was the singular feature of your interview that stood out from all the other almost eight hundred applicants. Your Harvard degree certainly helps but it’s not everything. It’s how you use your degree that matters.
So we are delighted to welcome you to the team. You start tomorrow. Dad said to say “Well done”. I was wondering when you go home if you can tell Mum that I’ll be a bit late home for dinner this evening.
Weave a Web 
Nepotism be damned…
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Nepotism is not an uncommon malady!
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It’s a good thing your parents paid for that Harvard education, or you never know where you might have ended up.
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I could’ve done some papers at Harvard but they were silly e.g. “Jesus as Woman” so I took papers in Boston College and Weston. This is in the 80’s. The thing that most impressed everyone in the following years was my Harvard sweater.
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Those are very nice sweaters.
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I graduated from Northwestern. Which always impresses people. Long ago I stopped trying to explain that it wasn’t that Northwestern. I now merely smile and nod.
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Ha ha! Smile and nod is the best policy. I took 11 years to get my Bachelor’s degree – I was working. One day the professor stopped me in the corridor and said “Why don’t you come to university full-time and learn something?” I smiled and nodded.
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Lolz.
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“Your Harvard degree helps, but in the end the old saying, ‘It’s not what you know, but who you know,’ that really counts.”
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My father had a dairy farm and he made me milk the cows. Talk about nepotism.
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That’s udderly terrible.
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It was the pits.
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Some people milk you for every penny they’ve got.
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My Canadian niece wants to know if this could be a relative of DT. I am reduced to bring the message bearer.
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Sounds more like Biden the Hunter!
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You have your fingers firmly on the pulse of modern times.
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A finger in every pie!
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This is exactly what happens with Harvard grads. It’s who you know.
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I did use the Harvard library several times while I was at Boston College – an Alma Mater I unfortunately share with AOC.
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I also used the Harvard Library to prepare for a biochem final. I went to My Holyoke. I interviewed with a woman professor (Betty Hay) there for a grad student position. She agreed to take me on but I didn’t get admitted to the grad program. If I’d gone, I wouldn’t have met my husband.
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It’s always interesting looking back on the twists life has taken to see where we’ve ended up!
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