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...Women] communicate very differently about physics than men,” Georgi says. “Women are typically less aggressive than men are in communicating…Unless you’re willing to tell your adviser he’s an idiot, you’re not going to do well...
...sciences, it’s so obvious there’s a problem that recognizing there’s a problem is not the issue,” Georgi says. “This is a really recent development and these gains could easily be reversed unless they propagate up the system...
...deans last summer, based on her prior experience as registrar at two schools with preregistration, Boston University and the University of Arizona. Preregistration is a useful method for allocating scarce enrollment slots where many courses have caps. But it does not produce good results if enrollments are open, unless students are not allowed to change courses. In any case, without a clearer picture of the magnitude of the problem—how bad are current enrollment estimates?—it would have been hard to know if preregistration had improved matters...
...will miss the writing aspect of this job a great deal. Unless you’ve tried it yourself and have been immersed perhaps a little further than expected, the thrill of newspaper writing is hard to describe. Aside from the ephemeral pride that comes with seeing one’s name in print (hopefully above a worthwhile story), there is the formidable challenge of forging interesting prose out of occasionally uninteresting material. To be sure, there are those rare exceptions when stories are so compelling that they’ll write themselves, but for the most part sportswriting...
Shirley M. Tilghman: You know, to be a leader there’s no question you have to have a certain level of aggression. I don’t think you can lead unless you’re prepared to be firm when it’s required and make tough calls when it’s required and deliver bad news when it’s required. And if you are uncomfortable doing any one of those three things, you can’t be effective, frankly, as a leader. But I think all three of those...