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With grad students, that is. Indeed, there’s nothing quite like watching a poor grad student buckle under the realization that his thesis isn’t going to change academia to put your own tricky response paper in perspective...
...concert. Researchers who tackle these critical issues, however, are scattered across the University. Because much can be gained both by Harvard and society at large by cooperation among scholars studying this critical issue, we propose the creation of a multidisciplinary center for energy studies, the likes of which academia has never seen. Oxford’s Institute for Energy Studies is a good starting point. Bringing together all of the social sciences, it analyzes economic concerns, international relations, and environmental politics centered on energy-related issues. Harvard’s center, however, should leverage its world-class resources...
...work on the part of our colleagues on the Task Force on General Education. The entire Harvard community should be grateful for the progress they have made and the issues they have asked us to address. I have two reservations, however. The final report will attract wide attention in academia and in the press, where it will be read not for its specific recommendations, but as a once-in-a-generation statement on the nature of higher education from the world’s most prominent university. As such, we should be mindful of the way the report frames...
...wrote. Funding for the system was provided by the DEAS. Other universities that use the Blue Gene Solution technology include MIT and Boston University, according to the supercomputer statistics list top500.org. According to an IBM spokesman, Harvard’s Blue Gene is the largest Blue Gene system in academia as measured by its processing speed...
...What I am going to say is that bowties are really dumb. Even if they are ironic. Because if some guy on the T sees you in your ironic bowtie, they will not get it, and they will certainly not stop to ponder your subtle lampoon of Nantucket and academia. They will instead think you are a douche bag, and I would not be able to defend...