Word: labs
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...collections and has received countless awards for her fiction. As she prepares for her latest honor—the PEN/Malamud Award for the Short Story—FM caught up with Harvard’s newest Briggs-Copeland lecturer to talk about craft, the weather, and Wanita, her yellow lab...
Addressing tricky environmental problems requires both scientific and sociopolitical innovation; we’re not just going to fix climate change (or any other major environmental issue) in a lab. Yet as I flipped through the Courses of Instruction that sophomore fall, I began to wonder whether I could pursue environmental studies here at all without spending the next few years in the Science Center. Harvard College’s environmental concentrations and courses were then, and still are, overwhelmingly scientific. Even this year, as “Green is the New Crimson” banners fly high, the University...
...more troubling issue was that she wanted us to watch it as a family. Have I ever mentioned that I am the only male (besides my fat brown Lab, Otto) among four females in my nuclear family? While Otto and I are adored and tolerated in pretty much the same way, he can always amuse himself during these estrogenic family nights by sleeping in a corner or quietly licking himself. I cannot get away with that, though I have tried. What I needed was a big dose of technology to get me through this ordeal. (Watch TIME's video...
...very specific set of affectations. By contrast, at Harvard you can almost always fit into a community as you are. I’ve spent quite a bit of time reflecting on whether and how my life would have been different if I had traded in my hours in lab and long nights perfecting problem sets to fit in with any given social set. Now, as a senior, I realize that it certainly would be different, but probably not for the better...
...taking ownership of my actions and reminding myself that, just because my lab work or homework kept me in on a Thursday night, I wasn’t a martyr for science, deserving of sympathy. To me, not having to pretend to dislike things that I actually appreciate is the most liberating aspect of my experience at Harvard...