Going to Harvard sure sounds glamorous.
But someone has to clean the toilets.
That someone is writing this email to you now.
Harvard dorm rooms are nicer than at most colleges. Nearly all of them have fireplaces, and they also have private bathrooms. None of this gang-shower-down-the-hall-like-you're-living-at-the-YMCA horror. You had your own bathroom.
Some sucker had to clean them. That was my job. I cleaned bathrooms at Dunster House, the building where Will's girlfriend lived in the movie Good Will Hunting. (That's not the real interior of Dunster, though.)
It was about as unpleasant as you're thinking it must have been.
I don't care how "privileged" their background -- college men are not known for keeping a clean bathroom.
In those days the Internet was still in its infancy. Had it been around then, I hope I would have been entrepreneurial enough to figure out that it was a ludicrous waste of my time to spend eight to 15 hours per week cleaning bathrooms.
What Ann Sieg described in her workshop with us I could easily have been doing from my computer (had the Internet been a bit more mature back then).
I would have generated much more income, and while having to come into contact with much less fecal material.
Check out the replay -- but do it quickly, because it's being taken down very soon.