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...meds who want to be told exactly what to do (see Biochemical Sciences) and pre-meds who hate science (see Biological Anthropology). Read on only if neither of those applies to you. Chemistry and Physics advising is very typical of Harvard: each student is assigned half a dozen advisors in the hope that one of them will actually be helpful. Officially, David Morin and Howard Georgi, both physicists, advise all concentrators. Each student is also assigned an individual advisor from the Physics department. Notice a theme here? The concentration has been more or less commandeered by the Physics department. (Further...
...concentrators begin looking for a lab to work part time in for course credit. Don’t limit yourself to Mallinckrodt Hall, either: opportunities abound in other chemistry-related departments, at the technical school down Mass. Ave., and at the Medical School. The department’s undergrad advisor, Gregg Tucci, can help you match your interests to a professor, but do your own research, too. Make sure you talk to other undergrads or grad students in the lab try to get a sense of what the work atmosphere is like, because some labs—particularly Prof. David...
...fulfill non-language and non-tutorial classes without ever taking a class in the department. Every single person in the EAS “office”—a yellow house hidden on Kirkland Place—knows your name. Seriously. After declaring, you hand-pick an advisor. While your economics-concentrating roommate gets some bumbling grad student who went to Idaho State, you can choose absolutely anyone, regardless of their University professorship, how many books they’ve authored, or academic rock-star status. You can even request two professors to be available for weekly check...
...degree-granting committee, the department’s inconvenient truth is that advising is negligible at best and that a significant effort has to be made to get attention from anyone in the department. The head of ESPP is Pfoho Housmaster Jim McCarthy, study break enforcer and science advisor to Al Gore’s own Inconvenient Truth. Other professors include Paul Hoffman and Daniel Schrag, the two leading proponents of the “Snowball Earth” hypothesis, which proposes that an ice age that took place in the Neoproterozoic was so severe that the Earth?...
...Karzai leaves to consult with security advisor...