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...Every faculty member at Harvard who is on top of his/her field is effectively holding 3 to 5 half time jobs, with teaching, research, various university administrative responsibilities, and national and international service to one’s profession,” the McCarthys write in an e-mail. “When one is a House master one simply does less of some of these other things...
...more work and took more time than we had imagined possible,” the McCarthys write. “We had over 300 students and 20 tutors to get to know, every day was different, and most were very long...
...while innovation is nice, so is work based on what others have done. You know those sourcebook articles that spend 90% of their time regurgitating the arguments of others, concluding with a new way of looking at those arguments? Those articles are very valuable, and also 90% easier to write than the articles that construct their own everything from scratch, in addition to their own arguments and conclusions. The articles are also much easier to defend in oral exams—the unexpected evil cousin that follows Thesis Club. Many academic greats have gotten quite far on this model...
...need to write a magnum opus, for the sake of your sanity, keep it under the 210-pages of this columnist’s thesis. Editing takes approximately ten times as long as writing. It takes me a full day to read my thesis, let alone fix all those horrendous pages that I wrote while tipsy in the middle of the night trying to meet deadlines. Just as great books can be short and sweet (my favorite book, The Lover, by Marguerette Duras, is 90 small, double-spaced pages), so can great theses...
...also your plane fare to visit the bars of Barcelona/your best friend in Los Angeles/the Dali Lama while you conduct said research. You probably think that you’ve just hit pay dirt: You’ll travel for the summer, talk to some people, and then write it up. Little do you realize that you’ll spend many angry summer hours on the phone with subjects who don’t show up for interviews, the entire fall semester analyzing interview data, and all of Winter Break coming up with a conclusion to your research. Congratulations...