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...departments and schools across the University. The initiative will sponsor about 20 postdoctoral students, 10 of whom have already started working in Harvard labs since the initial announcement of the agreement in October. Weitz added that the topics of all 20 projects under the initiative will be jointly agreed upon by Harvard faculty and BASF researchers. “No one side can determine the project themselves,” Weitz said. “In the end, what BASF is interested in is the individual creativity of all the professors working with the company.” Weitz said...
That feeling of subjugation, a positive plunge from the heights of academic superiority, is for the best. It’s rare to come upon opportunities that offer such a direct means of teaching ourselves humility. We are told that volunteering might war with our ego-centrism, but many programs place the volunteer in a level of hierarchical advantage, whether it’s as a teacher for an immigrant seeking citizenship or even as a van driver for helpless children. Volunteering is very often more concerned with bringing others up than with bringing oneself down to earth...
This May will see those four hundred students with the quintessential Dorm Crew tools—buckets and rags—descend upon the Yard and the Houses. Some are working to earn a bit of spending money for their European excursion, others as a transition between the raucous end-of-year celebrations and the lucrative consulting position that has been on their mind since the congratulatory phone call from McKinsey. In the midst of it all, maybe some of the modesty and perspective that escaped out the window so long ago as that letter arrived will return home...
Like some Biblical pestilence—befitting the recent conclusion of Passover—the Red Folders descended upon the green pastures of Harvard last weekend. With equal parts bewilderment and enthusiasm, future members of the Class of 2012 invaded our lectures, dormitories, and parties...
...most shocking things about these films is their length, with many of them clocking in either at or around a convention-busting two-hour running time. But people still don’t seem to be complaining. That’s because the Apatow humor aesthetic is founded upon the riff. Riffs are all about timing and sequence, and to get people into stitches you need to keep ’em coming. The writers of these films seem to be hyper-conscious of this fact—and the effect is that they can leave the viewer...