WHAT??   That makes no sense unless… what?
You should know:  the graduate students and various other academic hangers-on at that elite institution have recently gone out “on strike.” ….. You probably want to know why? Well,…. Consider this:   “The Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Harvard Griffin GSAS) offers incoming PhD students a comprehensive package of financial support including tuition, health insurance fees, and basic living expenses. This support consists of a combination of tuition grants, stipends, traineeships, teaching fellowships, research assistantships, and other academic appointments.
So …..  essentially every PhD student at Harvard gets all tuition waived, plus health insurance, plus living expenses. That’s at least $100,000 in value for openers, not to mention getting to live and work on probably the fanciest campus in all of academia, and coming away at the end with the most elite degree possible to kick off your career. Yes, most of them must pitch in on teaching some course as part of the deal. How could there be any suffering greater than that? If there ever was a reason not to strike this is it. These individuals are extremely pampered and some no doubt are intellectually intercoursed up.
If Harvard has any managerial ability at all it will let the strike continue and move deserving outsiders into the slots. It should also consider a defamation lawsuit against them.
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