So does this mad rush happen every year?
"Yes," she says.
Will it happen in every year to come?
"Yes. It's a Harvard tradition," she says. "It would be really great if everyone put this off to the last day, but they put it off to the last minute."
1:06 p.m.
Students coming in now are going upstairs instead of downstairs. Everyone in the 54 Dunster St. building is pitching in to steer them in the correct direction.
1:30 p.m.
John J. Applebaum '97 has just turned in his applications for legal consulting and investment banking. His advice? "Start early, dump your papers, don't go to classes, forget your thesis and double-check your resumes," he says. "I haven't done this. My apps are ragged."
Asked what he left off his resume, he says he was planning to put his passion for firearms on it, but thought better of it. "Not in Boston," he says