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The story of BerryLine illuminates the unpredictable nature of career paths. A frozen yogurt business was not the original plan of one of its founders, Matthew Wallace—he went from working in research labs to cooking in the Mass Ave kitchen—but it became a central aspect of his life. “It’s like one of those life lessons—you have that thought as a five-year-old, ten-year-old, twenty-year-old, of where your career is heading, and you just don’t know what’s around the corner,” Wallace says.

It’s tempting for students to study in preparation for a career rather than for the sake of learning. To a certain extent, this attitude makes sense. After all, what good is it to follow your academic and intellectual passions if there’s no way those passions can secure you a steady job or a spot in a graduate school once your four years are up?

Options. People always say that after college, you have options. At Harvard, however, it seems that students choose to pursue a narrower range of paths than the world offers. At the end of each academic year, Harvard’s Office of Career Services (OCS) asks graduating students to take the Harvard College Senior Survey. The statistics from […]