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Nathans says she doubts that a formal peer advising system for first-years could ever be created because students cannot see other students' records. She says that an advisor's access to those records are central to good advising...
Allison J. Porter ’02, an astronomy and astrophysics concentrator living in Quincy House, had Kirshner as an advisor for her junior paper. Porter raved about Kirshner’s ability to mix fun with academic rigor...
Advising is also a shot in the dark. Some incredibly lucky first-years receive deans or professors as academic advisors, but for most, your academic advisor is also your proctor, the graduate student who will live in your first-year dorm, feed you pizza and keep a box of well-stocked condoms near the door...
...interdepartmental committees, but for entering students the bulk of financial aid is decided at the departmental level" Berg says. "In Ph.D. programs the admissions decisions are all made by the departmental admissions committees-often by individual Faculty members since the Ph.D. program usually requires working with a particular advisor or Faculty member...
...1980s, Grogan served as an advisor to two influential Boston mayors, Kevin H. White and Raymond L. Flynn, and headed Boston's Neighborhood Development and Employment Agency, producing initiatives on affordable housing, education and literacy...