“There’s competition amongst everything, not just recruiting,” Murray says.
But Elborai says that the competition among seniors for admission to top graduate schools is “more abstract” than the race for a job.
“You’re competing with a bunch of different kids but you don’t get to see them,” she says. “[Recruiting] is more face to face and more abrasive.”
To combat the stress of vying with one’s peers for the same high-powered jobs, coupled with the annoyance of corporate dress, maybe the only solution is to laugh it off.
“It’s also kind of fun and exciting but I do have to take it with a sense of humor or else it would stress me out,” Tullo says.
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—Staff writer Liz C. Goodwin can be reached at goodwin@fas.harvard.edu.