Word: research
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tutorials. There are faculty members here who have presented the same series of lectures, year after year, with little or no change and no contact at all with their students, since graduate students mark all their papers and exams. Well, at least maybe they have time for "ground-breaking research...
Keep hiking down Mass Ave and you'll reach MIT, which resembles a prestigious center of technological education and research. Actually, unless you're despondent because you chose Harvard and now yearn in vain for the chance to make rocket fuel, this area is boring...
Between Mass Ave and Cambridge St., Broadway runs through a middle-class integrated neighborhood, past playgrounds and missile research facilities, till it finally reaches the river. Broadway is a nice place to walk through quiet streets with houses, not stores, and friendly people...
...LIKE conducting a battle campaign--you find the grunts, the students in the front lines...then you talk with the sergeants (grad students), then the junior officers (academic advisors). Finally, when I had my basic research in hand, I would go to the general, the president, and ask for an interview...
...course required one mammoth research paper on an individual who shaped public opinion on China, and I threw myself into research. I chose a famous Harvard professor active in public policy and spent hours in the Yenching library, digging up old correspondence, reading everything my subject had written, interviewing him and his colleagues. I would return to my room after the libraries closed and prattle on about my newest theory or the latest letter I had discovered to anyone who would listen. I ignored all my unrelievedly boring coursework and wrote the paper for weeks, finishing just before Christmas vacation...