Just wanted to source the "go into finance" thing, since I was the one who mentioned it on Snarkfest. It's from here (http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=512312), and it's not a direct quote. The context still makes her out to be an ass, though (the Isis is an 'elite' club):
"Viswanathan seems to be fitting in equally quite well at Harvard--socially and otherwise. She’s part of the Isis Club and a member of Women in Business, for instance, and on top of her schoolwork and her writing, she’s one of three Harvard kids working for the national student investment firm Global Platinum Securities (according to a colleague who recruited her, she recommends stocks to the company’s investment committee, and she intends to pursue finance—not writing—as a career after graduation). :
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Date: 2006-05-03 01:04 am (UTC)"Viswanathan seems to be fitting in equally quite well at Harvard--socially and otherwise. She’s part of the Isis Club and a member of Women in Business, for instance, and on top of her schoolwork and her writing, she’s one of three Harvard kids working for the national student investment firm Global Platinum Securities (according to a colleague who recruited her, she recommends stocks to the company’s investment committee, and she intends to pursue finance—not writing—as a career after graduation). :