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Professor Andrew Engelward, who teaches Math 21a, “Multivariable Calculus,” also rescheduled his midterm because of the election. Originally, the exam for the 290-student course was on the night of Nov. 2, but Engelward changed it to Thursday...
...little weirded out that my new proctor was going to be younger than me or something. Luckily, that’s not the case.” McCarty’s new courseload is no longer filled with music classes: Expos, Applied Math 21a, beginning Japanese and Chem 15. As he is now taking a Chemistry course one level higher than the two he was TFing just last year, he is taking classes with his former students, and even studies with them. Is it weird being that much older? He shrugs and states the often-preached maxim...
Last week, Stephen B. Cranston ’06 found himself living a Justice essay question, when he arrived in the room of his new Math 21a tutor only to find his Lazy-Boy recliner, which had been stolen from Leverett House storage, adorning the common room. Cranston, however, quickly resolved the moral quandary over whether stealing back one’s own stolen stuff is in fact stealing when his tutor hopped into the Lazy-Boy and then proceeded to demonstrate its seven reclining positions for him. Cranston seized the moment when his tutor stepped away for a bathroom...
...safe to bet that a slim minority masochistically challenge themselves in their Core selections), something else happens: the Core becomes ludicrously easy. For most Harvard kids, their Core selections represent the path of least resistance. I have no inclination to take Math 1a, and certainly not Math 21a, because I can always take “The Magic of Numbers.” Likewise, someone uninterested in philosophy would not fulfill their Moral Reasoning requirement by taking Philosophy 168: “Kant’s Ethical Theory,” the only departmental course that fulfills the MR requirement...
Each of the Putnam’s two sections has six math problems, with full credit for a problem netting ten points. While the number of problems may seem low to Harvard students used to taking SATs and Math 21a examinations, the majority of the test-takers don’t even receive full credit for a single problem. According to Ravi Vakil, co-author of a book on the competition from 1985-2000 and the Putnam coordinator at Stanford, the median score is usually zero or one. “Keeping in mind that the people taking the Putnam...