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With the nation facing threats of possible terrorist attacks and international students having to contend with a more rigorous student visa application process, more students may choose to attend schools closer to home...
Many professors at Harvard come to know their students through informal contexts. Although the Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan Pederson encourages professors to eat in the dining halls with students for free, to attend Faculty dinners and to be accessible through office hours, some professors take their efforts to the next level, inviting students to socialize them at their homes at dinner parties or other forms of debauchery. Some of these parties are legendary—Harvard College Professor and John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Maria Tatar’s “Fairy Tales?...
...fact, many undergraduates who study languages have had the opportunity to attend some of the most famous parties in professor-student party history. The Slavic Languages and Literatures Department is well known for its annual winter bash...
Luke R. Long ’03 is a fourth-generation rancher and the first student from Jackson Hole High School to attend Harvard. He’s had to endure some aesthetic disappointment here in the big city. “Jackson Hole was gorgeous, an amazing way to live,” he shares. “To leave that was hard...
Potential proctors, already members of the Harvard community, undergo a demanding application process that involves the evaluation of case studies, a personal statement and several interviews. Those who are chosen attend a rigorous week-long training program in August, where they are exposed to case studies of the academic and personal issues that students might face. As Straus proctor Zeev Ben-Shachar ’01 relates, “At one point, we were faced with the situation of roommates at war, and we debated how much of a role we should play in the peace process...