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...Whenever I’m not in NEC, I’m in lab,” he says. Luckily, Koh attributes his scheduling skills to his mother. As an undergraduate, he would practice the cello as his lab experiments incubated. Now, in the fifth year of the program, he says he uses a Google Calendar to arrange his busy days...
...joint program’s inaugural class. Koh says of the early years: “To be honest, the program wasn’t really formulated. I really felt like we were being treated like guinea pigs.” Every so often, students would meet with NEC administrators to flesh out what was and wasn’t working in the program. Cameron says that change was understandably slow...
...sort of felt like you would get cheated a few lessons here and there,” she says. Novak points out that communication between the two schools could be improved. And since students only take lessons their first three years in the program, interaction with NEC is limited...
...It’s] very hard to make them feel like part of the community here,” Novak says. “There are no easy answers.” Demanding Harvard schedules prevent members of the joint program from experience life as an NEC student...
...yearly fee for lessons also presents an added financial bruden for some. Novak says that NEC grants every joint program student a scholarship, but there’s little, if any, funding for the difference. Cameron says the program has come a long way. “Just about the all the problems have been fixed,” she says...