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...good thesis advisor should be knowledgeable about your subject and should be familiar with what your particular department expects in a senior honors essay. However, it is even more important that your advisor is willing to spend hours helping you improve your thesis and is someone with whom you can establish a good rapport. Thus, asking a high-profile professor to advise you may be a terrible mistake. If your advisor does not have enough time to spend guiding your work, you will inevitably end up frustrated. Furthermore, enduring the criticism of an advisor with whom...
...this essay, I will try to prove why teaching is the best job for a young Harvard graduate...
...Create your own army. Jack London is impossible to understand without being familiar with Marxism. "To Build a Fire": What drives the prospector to his death? "Money, Mr. Mayo. It's all money. Greed!" Fahrenheit 451: "Write a three-paragraph essay on why technology is out of control and needs to be reined in by strong, direct government action." The O.J. Trail: "Would this have happened in Massachusetts?" "No, Mr. Mayo!" Excellent, said Mr. Burns...
...condemn Mr. Kaufman personally as he seems to have done to John Appelbaum '97 and others. And far be it for me to contort his thoughts and beliefs as he has contorted the thoughts and beliefs of others in continually getting his facts wrong. But his latest essay, which was so self-righteous as to almost be pompous, deserves a response...
Before you, the reader, get any premature ideas that this will be one more editorial added to a growing mountain of editorials and essays on affirmative action, randomization and race, I want to reassure you that these words are written only to help foster constructive dialogue and new solutions. All of the criticizing and vehement rhetoric that is volleyed back and forth between those with opposing ideologies at the University will not ameliorate the life of one single American or Harvard student. My aim is not to add further to the background noise that permeates the national and campus debate...