Word: asses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were supposed to be more scholarly than George Reyes, who regularly earns Group III grades; who did not take lecture notes when he first came to Harvard because it seemed unnecessary; and who has not once in four years gone to a professor's office hours (and resents "kiss-ass" students who do go only to win points by asking impressive questions...
...waning in many departments, [see page 1], the trend may be reflected in the advice seniors receive. One senior tutor says he advises those who come to him with doubts about their thesis to drop it unless they find it exciting. "I've seen too many seniors drag their ass through February and March, not getting anything out of it, because they didn't have the courage to drop it in January," he says...
...hard to know how many seniors drag their ass through February and March wishing they didn't have a thesis to write. The most telling statistic is probably the number who drop their thesis (about 14 this year in Reyes's Government Department, for example), but that doesn't take into account the seniors who want very much to drop their thesis but don't. The discontent of thesis-writing seniors is apparent to friends, of course--thesis writers are wont to stumble bleary-eyed into a dining hall and gripe about their work--but often invisible to official Harvard...
...will probably finish the thesis, though, because he wants to prove something by writing it. Since coming to Harvard, Reyes has felt academically inadequate, as though "I couldn't compete adequately with the folks here." Not just the "kiss-ass" folks who regularly attend professors' office hours, but also those who do well without much work...
...this change from assembly-line routine. Herman Lommerse, 53, a Cadillac engine-plant worker, felt as if they were "building little toys." But his colleagues found the pace of work unexpectedly fast. Said Joe Rodriquez, 36, a ten-year Ford employee: "If I've got to bust my ass to be meaningful, forget it; I'd rather be monotonous...