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...concentration,” said Lauren M. Wolchok ’07, an Earth and Planetary Sciences concentrator who thought her commitment to her field of study was rewarded by the PBK selection committee. In fact, Wolchok will be putting her concentration to use immediately, as she plans to teach ecology and environmental sciences at an outdoors center outside of Los Angeles following her commencement—with a more long-term plan of extending her education. “Hopefully I’ll go back to school,” she said. Despite their excitement at the honor...
...Blue was for teaching. Blue was also for grading, although that was probably my least favorite part of being a Course Assistant. There’s that famous quote “to teach is to learn twice,” and it is certainly true. But to teach is also to remember why you wanted to learn in the first place. Getting others excited about your subject reminds you of why you though it was awesome to begin with (and if you do not think your subject area is awesome, I recommend a change in subject...
...clients...at another office” in Boston, Basile said. “[This] is difficult because that office is already used for other clients and it is not integrated into the Hispanic community.” Student volunteers at SCAS are put through a rigorous comp process to teach them the appropriate legal information needed to help clients. The organization also has a supervising attorney at the Law School, though students themselves handle nearly all of SCAS’s operations, Basile said. Espinosa said that El Concilio will also be aiding SCAS in community outreach by passing...
...Largely, I went with the organization-kid tide at Harvard. I over-did extracurriculars and elbowed for internships. I joined Teach for America, which caters to organization kids just like Goldman Sachs does. But sometimes, I felt that sinking feeling as I did in the pool: The system is sick, because of the organization kid mentality. I overheard one student describe writing a thesis as “Hoopes-ing it up.” I saw one student cry with envy when another student won a Rhodes scholarship. I know someone who took a class hoping that...
...teach by what we do, as well as by what we say. And if we showed no concern in a circumstance where there was even a thin causal chain to events and values which are antithetical to those we hold, we would in fact not be doing an effective job of teaching,” Nye was reported as saying in The Crimson at the time...