Word: cores
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This logic does not only apply to job-hunting. How do you think people get the best sections, get past the lottery of a Core class or get the thesis advisers they want? The same way you get a job--contacts, contacts, contacts...
...been the centerpiece of Harvard's linebacking core since he joined the team in 1996, a season in which he was named Ivy League Rookie of the Year. Along the way he has started every game of his career and was First Team All-Ivy and All-New England in 1997. Kacyvenski is on pace to break Harvard's all-time tackle record by his graduation...
Susan Lewis, the director of the Core program (which oversees its own section hiring), stated in an e-mail, "Core courses don't hire undergraduates to teach sections. If they can't staff with teaching fellows or teaching assistants, they lottery the course." It should follow from these assertions that undergraduates do not grade the subjective work of their peers at the College. Unfortunately, the facts prove otherwise...
Last spring, Professor Stephen Jay Gould hired two seniors to lead sections in his overcrowded Core course, Science B-16, "The History of Life." Both of these students were responsible for leading discussions, grading homework, grading the 15 page term papers and participating in the collective grading of the final exam...
Professor David Layzer often used undergraduates as co-section leaders in his Core courses, Science A-18, "Space, Time, and Motion," and Science A-22, "Chance, Necessity and Order," which were taught entirely in section (both courses are no longer offered). Layzer wrote me in an e-mail that he finds this practice to be beneficial to all of the students involved, particularly to the undergraduate section leader who is able to gain extraordinary experience...