Word: 21a
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...bombs and for people crossing the border. Most were seeking jobs, he says, though some were armed and looking to kill Israelis. In his pack—alongside his gas mask, bullets, grenades, helmet and cigarettes—Heilman stashed his “Surrealism” and Math 21a textbook...
...dilute the material, and that the class would be difficult. The hypocrisy here is patent, and, sadly, highly prevalent. One hears a abundance of whining about the lack of rigor in Core courses, but when push comes to shove, most of the complainers opt for Magic over Math 21a, “If there is no God.…” over Philosophy 174, “Matter in the Universe” over Chem. 10. Until the enrollment of the most difficult Core courses begins to swell and that of the easier ones begins to wane...
Johany Freitag, an effervescent mailroom worker from the Dominican Republic who sports black glasses and black hightop sneakers, begins chatting with Josue Guinart-Carrero ’05 in Spanish before walking to the back room where she finds the Math 21a textbook he ordered online...
...taking Applied Math 21a because I thought it would count for my Quantitative Reasoning Requirement, but because of certain administrative rules that the Core has, it hasn’t been approved,” says Janet L. Kim ’04. “I’m really frustrated because if it doesn’t count. I’ll have to take Magic of Numbers of something, even though [Applied Math 21a] is so much harder. I just think the Core office is overly rigid in the standards it places for classes to be substitutes...