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Eat Dessert First!

Eat Dessert First! The Forum Volume 5, Issue 1 2007 Article 13 A TRIBUTE TO NELSON W. POLSBY Nathaniel Persily, University of Pennsylvania Law School Recommended Citation: Persily, Nathaniel (2007) "Eat Dessert First!," The Forum: Vol. 5: Iss. 1, Article 13. DOI: 10.2202/1540-8884.1166 Persily: Eat Dessert First! 1 Of all the advice my friend and mentor Nelson Polsby gave me and other graduate students in his orbit, “Eat dessert first!” is for me the most memorable. It was the piece of advice that he delivered to each entering graduate student class and that summarized his approach to life and learning: go for the good stuff while you can, you can muddle through the drudgery en route. He would also usually conclude that speech with the following: “Look to the left of you, look to the right of you……You will all still be here in five years.” Having never met him before I began graduate school at Berkeley, I had formed the caricatured impression that the Nelson Polsby whose works I had read as an undergraduate was a demure, slight and probably Episcopalian New Englander. The name Nelson Polsby, which had a Dickensian ring to it a la Nicholas Nickleby, seemed to suggest http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Forum de Gruyter

Eat Dessert First!

The Forum , Volume 5 (1): 1 – Mar 28, 2007

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The Forum Volume 5, Issue 1 2007 Article 13 A TRIBUTE TO NELSON W. POLSBY Nathaniel Persily, University of Pennsylvania Law School Recommended Citation: Persily, Nathaniel (2007) "Eat Dessert First!," The Forum: Vol. 5: Iss. 1, Article 13. DOI: 10.2202/1540-8884.1166 Persily: Eat Dessert First! 1 Of all the advice my friend and mentor Nelson Polsby gave me and other graduate students in his orbit, “Eat dessert first!” is for me the most memorable. It was the piece of advice that he delivered to each entering graduate student class and that summarized his approach to life and learning: go for the good stuff while you can, you can muddle through the drudgery en route. He would also usually conclude that speech with the following: “Look to the left of you, look to the right of you……You will all still be here in five years.” Having never met him before I began graduate school at Berkeley, I had formed the caricatured impression that the Nelson Polsby whose works I had read as an undergraduate was a demure, slight and probably Episcopalian New Englander. The name Nelson Polsby, which had a Dickensian ring to it a la Nicholas Nickleby, seemed to suggest

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Published: Mar 28, 2007

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