Question about EA deferreds

Northstarmom
Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:47:50 +0000

"I guess in the world of high academia attire does reflect one’s personality and they way he or she conducts him or herself. "

In the world in general, how people dress and wear their hair does reflect their personalities.

" If you were asked to describe the attire of a high academia/business person, I bet you would say a suit and jacket and tie for men and business formal attire for women"

I am not sure what you mean by “high academia,” but how people dress in academia depends upon the people and upon the institution. I have been a professor, and wore things ranging from suits, to business casual to traditional African attire when I felt like connecting with my roots as an African American.

I would not, though, have gone to work in clothes that I had slept in.

When I interview, I tend to wear clothes that are business casual. Out of respect for the student and the experience, I wouldn’t show up in clothes that I had slept in. Even though I would be the person in the power position, I wouldn’t want to look like I didn’t give a darn or didn’t have any respect for the person whom I was interviewing.

Out of curiosity, how would you have felt if you went to your Harvard interview and the interviewer were wearing rumpled attire or pajamas?