Word: grads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the book lacks any humor and quality, it inevitably will sell well because of the implicit guarantee. You come with us kid, and you've got it made a high grade point average, a flawless transcript, a ticket to the grad school of your choice. "What more could an eager freshman ask for? As the author argue. "What you have actually learned is something else entirely...no one expects you to "know" anything. They just want to see that little piece of paper covered with honors...
...played against a system which threatens to slap them with a bum grade and send their lives, families, future children and bank accounts down the tubes. These darlings of the New and More Vicious Darwinism rationalize their suggestions in a conclusion entitled "Now You Are Ready to fight"..."No grad school or employer expects you to know anything, in any depth. Besides, you have learned something that will be a hell of a lot more important in the long run; how to use a system to your advantage...
Says Pihl at the outset. "Our summer faculty members are comprised mostly of teachers with a Harvard affiliation, but we also have recruited distinguished visiting faculty members." They are distinguished in that they are the ones who seem to teach all of the courses, while "Harvard affiliated" apparently includes grad students and people who received degrees here. Illusion and reality; tenured Harvard superstar becomes BU assistant prof A.M. 110 is APSC s-120. Does art imitate life or transform it? Whither Veritas...
Marshall sees the graduate student as "living within the infamy of Harvard." The programs that Marshall and the GSC are trying to implements--a student center, a pub, intramurals and counselling services--are designed to make the graduate students feel like they belong to Harvard. Most grad students, he says, sit in their offices working and have little contact with the University outside their department after orientation week of their first year. Although he cannot after the basic nature of graduate studies Marshall does feel that the quality of the life can and will improve. "I think we can carve...
...unprepared middle-class family with expenses, and for the student with no resources at all. Aid officers calculate that, with rising interest rates and with the new GSL stipulation that students start repaying the loans while still in school, a student relying on them through both college and grad school could amass tens of thousands of dollars in debt...