{"id":1475,"date":"2003-09-22T17:25:34","date_gmt":"2003-09-22T21:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/09\/22\/the-hand-youre-dealt\/"},"modified":"2003-09-22T17:25:34","modified_gmt":"2003-09-22T21:25:34","slug":"the-hand-youre-dealt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/22\/the-hand-youre-dealt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hand You&#8217;re Dealt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1207'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bright and early Monday morning, after a bad night with a terrific head cold and shoulder<br \/>\ntendonitis aggravated by another vainglorious weekend of Fall Tennis. I just got my first<br \/>\npeek at the list of 14 international students with whom I will be working daily until<br \/>\nDecember (copy below, the last names have been censored to protect the innocent).<\/p>\n<p>Looks like I&#8217;ll be working a tough room this fall. Seven men and seven women. Ages 17 (! much younger than<br \/>\nnormal) to 35. Their business experience ranges from mid-level executives in large corporations and ministries to, well, how much business experience can a 17-year-old female have? Nice variety of cultures and native languages, though. 9 countries, and some<br \/>\nless common ones too: Paraguay, Poland and the PRC, for example.<\/p>\n<p>These are the most advanced business students in our program.  They give them to me, I guess,<br \/>\nbecause I am opaque enough that they can&#8217;t figure out if I am really smart or really dumb<br \/>\nuntil the end of the semester, and by then its too late.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already gotten a heads-up about the 35-year-old mainland Chinese guy.  He&#8217;s part of a<br \/>\ncontingent from the Ministry of Commerce. We are supposed to make an extra effort to keep<br \/>\nthese customers happy, because there&#8217;s a lot more where they came from. The first day is always a rush.  I&#8217;ll try to post a brief de-briefing tonight.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/heddersm.jpg\" alt=\"clasl\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bright and early Monday morning, after a bad night with a terrific head cold and shoulder tendonitis aggravated by another vainglorious weekend of Fall Tennis. I just got my first peek at the list of 14 international students with whom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/22\/the-hand-youre-dealt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}