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...obsolete (or at all different from the old one). You will probably have to go to a few lectures once in a while, but don’t fret, your professors (if you meet them) will all be extraordinary in one way or another. Your Ec10 TF might have a recurring role on “Om sarac, om bogat,” that sidesplitting sitcom out of Bucharest. Too bad you’ll never know it, since she only speaks Romanian! Fortunately, we have some words of advice to help you break out of your high school years...
...teaching—something that shouldn’t be discounted—there is little incentive for faculty to advise them. While department heads sometimes recommend graduate students over professors, saying that they can devote more time to students, it’s unlikely that graduate students, who TF classes and are writing their own dissertations, are sitting on their hands. If they’re better advisers, it’s because they feel a greater sense of responsibility to students...
...teaching fellow Michael L. Dougan one of the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Awards last night, Ashish Agrawal ’08, told a story of Dougan’s dedication to his students: two days before his wife’s due date, the molecular and cellular biology TF held a review session. Students and faculty gathered last night to hear stories of dedication like this one and celebrate exemplary teaching at Harvard by honoring the nominees for the 25th annual Levenson Prize. The recipients of the three awards—one senior faculty member, one junior faculty member...
...Science B-62: “The Human Mind” TF Kyle A. Thomas is an active blogger for his class, and frequently encourages his students to check out the Web site. “I think the more ways students see ideas presented, the more likely they are to understand it—not as a substitution, but as a complement to the class.” And proving that he really is a cool TF, Thomas also notes that “as long as the students learn the material, it doesn’t matter...
...seem to pertain much more to your present occupation. Did your academic concentration influence your current job at all?JL: Definitely, in certain ways. Applied math is really hard. Most of the time, you didn’t understand what your professor was saying and had to have your TF explain it to you later. So at a certain point, your attitude becomes, “I’m pretty intelligent. So if I’m not understanding what you’re explaining to me, it’s not because I’m not smart...