In the bubble

One of the phenomena that comes with having a complete, self-contained campus is the HBS "bubble." It's very real, particularly for those who live on campus; our entire worlds can be found within a 2-minute walk of where we sleep. Almost all of the buildings are also connected by subterranean tunnels, which means that come winter it's possible to go days without ever setting foot outside a campus building. Even the main Harvard campus, separated from the business school by the Charles River, can seem distant. This past week recruiting for summer internships began in earnest, with numerous employers giving presentations each day for the next few weeks, ratcheting the intensity and activity level up yet another notch. It's amazing how quickly the world inside HBS becomes the only place you think of , and how everything outside of it is temporarily set aside. The fact remains that one day in the not-too-distant future, the HBS bubble will go away, and the real world, for better or worse, will once again be all that we have.