Today Glazer wakes up at 7:30 a.m. after racking up his usual three-and-a-half hours of sleep to catch up on some readings for class, and of course, to try and stay on top of the ever-accumulating e-mails.

“I know it kind of sounds lame to say ‘Oh, I have a lot of e-mails,’ but it’s a big part of what I do,” he says, adding that he gets around 20 to 30 e-mails an hour on his personal account and around 60 an hour on the UC President’s account.

Throughout the day, Glazer uses every spare moment to catch up on communications, either by stopping at the Science Center to check e-mails, checking in quickly with UC members in brief meetings, or conducting business on the fly with his cell phone while walking to and from appointments.

“Basically, in order to do my job I have to make sure that everybody else is doing their job,” Glazer says of the constant communication.

FIRST-CLASS DISTRACTION

Glazer squeezes in his first meeting of the day with Chair of the January Term Committee Tom Conley before his first class—a Lit Core on Germany.

After popping over to the Science Center to respond to more e-mails, he arrives at his first class dressed casually in jeans and a sweater and whips out a single legal pad in which he says he keeps notes for all four of his classes.

“I think there’s some UC stuff in here, too,” he says as he leafs through the few pages covered with cribbed writing. “I don’t feel attached to the semester yet.”

Glazer, a Government concentrator, has set up his schedule so that he only has classes Tuesday through Thursday, providing for maximal UC time. Glazer shares a classmate’s book and looks sheepish when asked where his is.

“It’s somewhere…” he says.

Although Glazer is reluctant to say he has sacrificed school for the UC, his roommate Golis says that besides sleep, schoolwork is the first to go.

“The thing to know is that he just doesn’t have a chance to start thinking about school until about 2 a.m.,” Golis says.

SAC chair Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06 says that Glazer and he joke about how they spend more time in meetings than in class.

“I procrastinate with UC stuff with schoolwork and schoolwork with the UC,” Glazer says.