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...senior class plans on remaining in Boston. San Francisco and Washington, D.C., were the next major destinations of Harvard seniors, drawing 8 percent of graduates each. Of the 22 percent of respondents entering graduate schools next year, 21 percent will attend medical school, 20 percent will begin a PhD program, 18 percent will be doing a master’s program, 17 percent will be going to law school, and 4 percent will be starting business school. Not everyone will be working or attending graduate school—nearly five percent of poll respondents plan to travel for the year...
...sophomore year, Shleifer made an appointment with Lawrence H. Summers—who had managed to become an assistant professor at MIT while still studying for his PhD at Harvard—to point out mistakes in a paper Summers had written...
...Harvard, where he has been for 12 years in a series of progressively more responsible positions, he became known for his wise counsel on governance and process and his thoughtful, calm judgment on even the most difficult issues,” said Zimmer, who received a PhD in mathematics from Harvard...
Roger D. Huffstetler Jr. came to Harvard for a PhD in chemistry a few years ago, but left soon after to join the Marines. He was deployed both to Afghanistan and Iraq, and is now ready to come back here, this time for a joint degree from HBS and KSG. “Harvard undergraduates are unique individuals and have a lot to add to society, but they also have a lot to add to the armed forces...I don’t want them to discount that as an option,” said Huffstetler...
...says. "It's surprising how many theories of dreaming there are that are not based on any systematic review of the evidence." He cites studies showing that, typically, dreams are too seldom sweet, and that negative feelings, dangerous scenarios and aggression are over-represented. Based on ongoing work with PhD student Katja Valli, Revonsuo estimates that the average "non-traumatized" young adult has, conservatively, 300 threat-simulation dreams a year. In the dreams of both men and women, male strangers and wild animals are most often the enemy, and the dreamer's typical responses are running and hiding, often...