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...main concern preregistration aims to address is Harvard’s frustrating teaching fellow (TF) hiring practices. Under the current system, graduate students interested in teaching must contact professors during the preceding semester in a process that former Graduate Student Council President Lisa L. Laskin calls “catch as catch can.” But even when students receive confirmation from professors, there is no job guarantee because fluctuations during the shopping week lead to confusing estimates about eventual enrollment. This complicated problem of predicting enrollment figures, combined with an archaic, decentralized and inefficient hiring process, leaves both...
Students aren’t surprised to hear about Hare’s unconventional work outside the classroom. Molly M. Faulkner-Bond ’06, who knew Hare as her TF last semester, says Milo was a constant companion in section. “Brian explained to us that [Milo] was lonely left at home during the day and the neighbors were sick of his barking,” she says. “In section he usually just sat under the table and you forgot he was there...
...Alexander on at least one barometer of notoriety—the celebrity photograph page on www.benjaminbolger.com, where Alexander’s mug is pictured much higher on the list than Hammer’s. Benjamin B. Bolger, the 27-year-old proprietor of this personal webpage and teaching fellow (TF) for several popular courses at Harvard, posts photographs of himself on his website with dozens of notables...
...peppers his sentences with presidential references even more than a typical former American Presidency TF. He says he “tends to take a Jeffersonian approach to life,” in terms of his varied interests. When he interned in the White House in 1995 and was able to meet Bill Clinton he felt “a certain sense of inspiration—“He presented himself as someone real,” he says. About his mother’s secretarial assistance, he reminds an avid history student that Winston Churchill, Nelson Rockefeller...
...songs was inspired by his English classes in a different way, however. “I wrote one of the songs to court a TF, and I put it into writing in Helen Vendler’s English 10b. We were reading Keats and it’s full of Keats references...