Word: tfs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...teaching fellows (TFs) say they have had conversations with Mankiw about more fundamental changes to the course—ones that many believe are long overdue...
...10’s characteristics, the latter is the least likely to be altered. But TFs say that Mankiw appears very open to allowing students to drop the course, with credit, after the first semester. And to a lesser extent, TFs say, Mankiw has discussed with them the allegations of a conservative bias...
Danny and I were both ready with invective for members of our own gender crossing romantic wires with our twin, and ready with more invective against professors or TFs who were too foolish to appreciate our twin’s unique brilliance. Together, we’ve railed at the way the administration sends away favorite young professors or lecturers after a few years, we’ve complained about final clubs and backstabbing social climbers, we’ve rejoiced in each others’ triumphs on the playing field, in the paper, and in true friendships and relationships...
...students. There is an overwhelming culture of complaint at Harvard. Students bemoan the amount of work they have like adolescent boys comparing shoe sizes. They curse Harvard for bad TFs, uninspiring lecturers, the quality of dorm life (and dorm food), the fact that the College—gasp—officially enforces Mass. state alcohol law, poor advising, and a smorgasbord of more petty annoyances...
...that some students really feel entitled to moan about Harvard as though they deserve waterslides, cable in every dorm room, and course reading lists that only contain picture books. A lot of us undergraduates need to get some perspective. Sure, Harvard has some lousy advisors, unintelligible TFs, and a sometimes muted party scene, and the University needs balanced criticism (see below). But be fair—Harvard does a better job teaching, housing, feeding and caring for its own than almost any other institution in the world...