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Hanson, who will retain his position as house master after the conversion, says international students who constitute 30 percent of GSAS's population often feel the isolation of graduate life most acutely and will benefit from the new social center...
...there are lessons to be learned as a graduate student, one of them must be to keep your avocations alive. Every member of GSAS needs some release, and convincing yourself you no longer have time for a favorite extracurricular is a big mistake...
Murphy's law of GSAS: enjoyable work expands to fill ALL available time. I've kept in touch with most of my students and have written their recommendations for fellowships, medical school, law school, graduate school--you name it. More necessary and enjoyable work; more time to put off finishing...
Last year, I joined Mather House as the resident economics tutor, and that position brought into focus the real reason GSAS exists: to keep the students away from the tenured faculty! I sign study cards, I advise young economics concentrators, I run review sessions for the major courses, I talk about career plans, I write recommendations...
...taken years off my life living in close contact with them, and I don't think my time in GSAS would have been the same without them. Maybe the house system took a page out of the Business School's book--the resident tutors make a perfect middle management staff...