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...Certainly in most things an undergraduate is not as qualified as a grad student," Kolko explains. "But I get the sense that [Feldstein] is as interested in my learning something as he is in my producing something...
...While he has gotten to work on a couple of special research projects--one on student financial aid, and another on Japanese productivity growth--he has also spent a good part of his summer putting together the new readings workbook for Social Analysis 10, the introductory economics course which Feldstein teaches...
...still, Kolko says his internship at the National Bureau of Economic Research never leaves him bored. "These are projects that [Feldstein] has wanted to work on," Kolko explains. "It's not as if he created busywork...
...Feldstein] has been really good in suggesting directions for me to work in that would be interesting and challenging," Kolko says. "The experience wouldn't have been half as good if I had been all on my own working in a library," he adds...
Kolko says he actually sees Feldstein for only one hour a week. One research assistant, Mark J. Schnitzer '92, says he is fortunate enough to have weekly seminars with his professor. But most acknowledge that this is not the norm...