Papa John's... Pimp My Ride!

With all the good summer internships already snatched up, it’s time to get creative. Enter Papa John’s pizza and their Harvard-friendly job position: campus pizza rep. Merrily E. McGugan ’09, current holder of this sweet (and savory) title, takes her cheesy gig pretty seriously.

“Every week I bike through this sketchy underpass to meet with the Somerville manager, Marcio. He gives me fliers for the week, magnets, cups, and a pep talk. I basically deliver fliers and bring back free pizzas to hand out to students.” For her troubles, McGugan gets 50 dollars a week.

But life as a pizza rep isn’t all free slices. Last year, during McGugan’s first week on the job, Papa John’s printed flyers were posted all around campus—with McGugan’s cell phone number in bold near the top, prompting students to “get in touch” with the campus rep. “I’d get calls at 3 a.m. from people trying to order pizzas,” she says. Thankfully for both McGugan and midnight snackers, this is no longer the case.

With ’Nochs right around the corner, why would any Harvard student call up Papa John’s? “Having pizza delivered right to your dorm room is so nice,” McGugan says. Granted our drunken munchies can stand the forty-five minute wait.

But McGugan’s life aspirations go beyond pizza promotions. This social anthropology concentrator dreams of beginning a career in public relations. Any chance she’ll tire of her italian cuisine ways and “pass the pizza box” along to a new Harvard hopeful? “Perhaps,” she says. So screw Merrill Lynch; hit up Merrily McGugan instead.