Word: summering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Summer research does more than provide an opportunity for personal investigations, thesis advisers from several departments say. Working over the long vacation is most important because it gives students extra time...
Nonetheless, Phinney says, although it may seem as if students who conduct summer thesis research have an unfair advantage, "it doesn't make a crucial difference" because "the people who will get summas will get them anyway...
Tutors in other departments agree. Associate Head Tutor of Economics Erin Page says that summer research helps improve a student's preparation and makes senior year some-what less traumatic. But, she adds, it does not give the student an "inside track" on a good grade...
Nina P. Mercer '89 says she feels that her summer research was vital to her thesis. Mercer, a fine arts concentrator, received $2400 in traveling grants from Middle Eastern Studies and Radcliffe College to examine Izmik tile in museums in Portugal, France, England and Turkey...
Although seniors who traveled sing praises of their experiences, not doing summer research does not preclude good work. As Page says, four of last year's top economics theses were written by students who had done no research abroad and still received grades of summa minus or higher...