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...whole aim was to address a wide audience, to persuade, to bring in new people. It was hard to figure out how to write about it without alienating my audience...
...other ways, academia has been slow to change. The sea change in professional gender roles has not come with a similarly dramatic shift in how graduate programs function. When Ph.D. candidates were married males with stay-at-home wives, they could afford to have children without derailing their careers. Now, many—and particularly many women—feel pressure to choose between family and profession or those who choose both climb the faculty ladder with their hands tied. The result is an exodus of women at every stage of the academic pipeline. The higher you climb, the fewer...
Recent years have not been without organized efforts at improvement. In 2008, the Student-Parents Organization and a group of students led by Kyle M. Brown, then-president of Harvard’s Graduate Student Council, assembled a survey and a set of recommendations concerning parental accommodation that they presented to Harvard administrators. Only mixed success has followed. GSAS has helped reinforce an official but sometimes unheeded policy allowing students who have a child during school an extra year to finish their dissertations. The pilot grant program for Harvard childcare also emerged from the group’s earlier lobbying...
...kind of noble, or whatever. I think you could say writing for FM has its noble, humanity-saving aspects as well. Wasting time (either not working, or not thinking and complaining about working) is anathema here. Few people spend afternoons lazing in coffee shops or cafés without an accompanying laptop...
...guess, I can only recommend that at one point during college, you drop everything, piss off your parents, and go abroad—for a week, for a summer, for a semester. Do something stupid. Make new friends. Do nothing for a long period of time without thinking about work. Then come back and return to the land of worry and G-chats and stalking ISawYouHarvard, a few regrets and pounds heavier. It’s the American...