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...quality of your thesis. “How does one select a successful topic?” you ask. There are three questions to keep in mind. Is your topic extremely obscure? Does it have a colon in its title? Did you request and receive an obscene amount of grant money to do research and then blow most of it at a strip club in Paris? If you answered yes to these questions, then you will probably win a Hoopes prize. If not, you can always use your thesis as a doorstop. Meanwhile, just hobnobbing with the department?...
...course, almost all of the classes in this area will require a good amount of reading. If you really hate to read novels or poetry, if you’re the type that would rather curl up with the latest issue of Nature than with a good novel, then this experience will probably suck for you. Or, you’ll end up broadening your horizons through academic exploration! But it will probably suck; just remember to plan ahead and take the class that you’re most interested in. And if you actually like to read and write...
There’s a certain amount of mystery in the air around the Literature department–or maybe that’s just the cigarette smoke. Lit’s got a rep for being one of Harvard’s more esoteric concentrations, filled with artsy Advocate-ians and worldly European ex-pats who spend all day at the wrought-iron tables outside Boylston Hall, arguing about Kafka in a dozen foreign languages and smoking whatever’s at hand. But don’t stress—the passport and drug habits are all optional...
...added, “I don’t think the total amount over a two, three-year period will be affected...
...Droves of people made pilgrimages to the site, which has ironically become New York's most visited tourist attraction in the five years since the attacks. There was no end to the amount of cameras and camcorders documenting the anniversary, and there was also no end to the outpouring of emotion that would undoubtedly come with such a milestone...