IvyGate Classic: Kaavya Before She Was Kaavya
Harvard's punch season is upon us, so now is as good a time as ever to revisit last year's Isis flap. (We'll say it again: we were born a year late.) Long story short, the Isis, one of Harvard's sororities, accidentally left its "punch book," a forum where sisters commented on each punch candidate, accessible on the web. Punchers got drilled for "fake smiling," having a "self-serving attitude," or "trying way way way too hard" -- and the whole world knew it. Cattiness abounded, reputations crumbled, hilarity ensued.
A Harvard tipster points out that one puncher -- you'll never guess who -- was described as "the NEXT BIG THING and it would be a coup to have her in the club," although she's "a little awkward. I thought so after the first event but was also suayed [sic] by her air of sophistication and fashion sense."
Awkward? Fashionable? THE NEXT BIG THING?! We'll kill the suspense and reveal, with the wisdom of hindsight, that Ms. Kaavya Viswanathan is now a proud Isis member. When this season's punch book gets leaked, we'll be sure to vet it for, uh, similarities to last year's.
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October 12th, 2006 at 8:58 am
No kidding. She utilized her “book-writing” for getting into Harvard, getting membership in its elite clubs, getting into Global Platinum Securities (special student-run investment club), etc. etc. Rather pathetic!
October 12th, 2006 at 9:58 am
A little bit of the pot calling the kettle black here, no? Fexter!
October 13th, 2006 at 7:02 am
Actually, the institutions are just as pathetic. Harvard accepted her at least partly because of her book deal (a catalyst for admission); Isis wasn’t really impressed at first but took her in cause of her book deal; pretty sure there are other instances as well that the book deal got her in. And then the whole thing blew up in everybody’s faces!!!
August 26th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Isis is a final club not a sorority. FYI