Lol, I'm so sorry, this is unkind and very possibly inaccurate, but I read your "what department" question like this: "Where were you on the internal Harvard h

Lol, I'm so sorry, this is unkind and very possibly inaccurate, but I read your "what department" question like this: "Where were you on the internal Harvard hierarchy that we both know is incredibly important to Harvard folks, but that the outside world generally knows nothing about. I need to know where you were on the status ladder so I can decide how much of your comment, like the article author's (she's on the lower side of the middle of the ladder) is sour grapes from someone who hit a velvet rope inside the club and is bitter about it." Like I said, this is probably deeply unfair, and if it is then my apologies, but after spending five years there I can't help but parse it this way. FWIW I was at the Div school, which is near the bottom, so we're all keenly aware of these issues because the lower you are on any hierarchy the more that hierarchy and your place in it defines your experience of the whole. It's only the folks on top who can afford to be ignorant of the kinds of issues that everyone below them has to carefully navigate.