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...experiences with the "apathy bug," thankfully, have been less extreme. All of my sections have had interesting, thoughtful people in them, and I've had a few TFs whose efforts at rallying students to participate were outstanding. Yet I have overheard and participated in too many conversations about "my annoying core class" or "my section with 10-minute silences." (I hope this last remark is an exaggeration.) This intellectual apathy has probably led many people, at some point in their studies here, to ask themselves: Is this really Harvard...
...which Harvard has addressed the lack of funding for graduate students is with paid positions as teaching fellows (TFs...
Harvard pays ten million dollars to TFs each year...
...said Harvard TFs would be "herded like untrained conscripts into the trenches...
...then we realized: Life must really suck for students in grad school--kind of like college, but only worse. So what's the most appropriate way to show gratitude for the hard and often unrecognized work of our TFs...