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...come to dread checking my mail. No, I have no irrational fears about contracting anthrax. Rather, I have come to fear the arrival of that bane of Harvard students’ existence—the phone bill. It seems that every time I check my mailbox, there it is again, the innocuous looking envelope with the pink sheets of astronomical fees and the orange envelope of doom that screams expectedly for yet another check. But, no matter how many I pay, the Harvard Student Telephone Office (HSTO) continues to inundate my mailbox with these annoying envelopes...
Ready? Let's go. In the beginning, writing is difficult. Maybe it's just me; my handwriting was the bane of my schoolteachers and has gotten progressively more illegible ever since. The thickness of the chrome-colored Chatpen doesn't help. Worse, my normal writing grip - I use my middle finger to hold up the pen - obstructs the camera. As I try out a new grip, my first scribbles are ugly scratches. Wiebe encourages me to write large, looping letters. This helps considerably. Soon, I can write comfortably at normal speed...
...coalition wins a majority in both houses with his own party so much stronger than its partners, then it's a relatively stable government that could last the full five-year term. It's noteworthy that Italian voters punished small parties in this election. They've long been the bane of Italian politics, because with 3 percent of the vote you could make or break a government. But besides the hard-line communists, who scored 5 percent, all of the smaller parties suffered at the polls. This time the voters opted for the larger parties on both the left...
...Enthusiasm for interacting with the student body should be a requirement for tenure. Two hours of office hours is not terribly demanding, yet some professors make it seem like the bane of their existence. Harvard’s dining program allows students to take faculty members into the dining hall at no expense. I rarely, however, see anyone capitalizing upon this option. Why? The Harvard environment does not encourage such interaction. Professors should make a statement during shopping period that they are willing to meet with students outside of the classroom and office hours. In addition, it would be nice...
...First-year students must endure a semester of Expos for the sake of perfecting the fine art of essay writing. Expos, as the class is more commonly referred to, sometimes offers a rewarding experience, but nearly everyone knows that one person whose Expos section was the bane of their existence for the entire semester. Despite these mixed results, Expos does offer first-years more than opportunities to improve their writing; occasionally they meet famous people. Recently, the two sections of Expository Writing called “The Ethics of Fiction” met for a roundtable discussion with William Styron...