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Rodriguez found the most egregious example of gratuitous opinionatedness at Café Pamplona, where he overheard the following: “Really, to say she capitulates to the patriarchy she critiques every time she posits the supplement is very uninteresting.” While this episode of mental masturbation is...
This week’s topic is the senior thesis. I teach two thesis seminars in the gov department and last week I met with a familiar sight. Gone were the relaxed, insouciant faces that had greeted me during the first semester. In their place were worried mugs, furrowed brows...
You should realize what whale and human mothers have known for years: whatever you produce will be good enough, just because it’s yours. And unless you want to do Ph.D. work in your current field—a decision that many of my colleagues would recommend only...
Also, you can do a hell of a lot in under a month. One of my advisees wrote two-thirds of his thesis in the last three weeks. His diet consisted of cigarettes and Altoids, and he ran a grave risk of becoming spontaneously embalmed. But the human body has...
Grade curves equal grade competition, the last thing that already strung-out Harvard students need to grapple with. Our grades aren’t inflated; they’re realistic. Are there grade discrepancies between Harvard departments and classes that should be fixed? Yes. Is it odd that 90 percent...