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...economics—one of Harvard’s largest departments—Huang has learned to depend on word-of-mouth, friends and upperclass students. This get-it-yourself attitude stems from her advising at Cornell. “I was assigned a faculty and a student advisor. My faculty advisor was not very helpful. He just signed my forms. I think we met once during the academic year. My student advisor, an undergraduate research scholar, was incredibly helpful and knowledgeable. We communicated via e-mail and during ‘office hours’ and, when I decided...
...Moderi ‘04 shares this piece of advice to anyone who feels they aren’t getting adequate support. “Having a bad advisor is not the end of the world,” she says. “So you’re going to have to make your own decisions. It’s ultimately what we all have to do anyway...
Former Clinton legal advisor Vernon Jordan talked about the role of the civil rights movment in his professional success at the ARCO Forum last night...
...trying to rework the material to bring out the humor and sympathy where it might be overlooked. But yes, most of my characters are based on people I know very well and it’s made the process very intense. My meetings with my thesis advisor sometimes feel like therapy sessions. She’ll ask me, “Why does this character feel this way? It’s disturbing and I want to know what makes the character do this.” And I’ll sit there and wonder...
...sense of what someone else would make of it, if what I want to get across is coming across. For my thesis stories, I’ve been giving my advisor drafts to read, and he gives me comments that usually make sense to me, with what I feel is accurate and useful feedback. After that I usually just do one big revision, making minor changes after that. I am thinking about getting more readers for my thesis later on in the process, but it is also good not to have a million people telling you a million different things...