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...concentrator once explained to me that, since high school, she had been trained to be really good at math and physics, and she was frankly too scared of doing poorly to risk taking a music class. A few changes to Harvard’s academic policies could lower the barrier of taking such risks and encourage students to explore interests beyond their chosen fields...
...Opening up the Core and Gen Ed requirements and extending the deadline for making the pass/fail versus letter-grading choice will lower the invisible barrier many students place in front of venturing outside their academic comfort zones. There is no substitute for students’ willingness to embrace the challenges and risks of exploring new fields, but there is also no reason Harvard should not have academic policies that encourage...
...Despite the size and vibrancy of Harvard’s arts community, some students express a sense of separation from the rest of campus. “Unfortunately for the larger community, there seems to be some sort of barrier between the two,” Pecci said. “It seems as if the Harvard community at large isn’t aware of a lot of the work going on and how good...
...class, with a desperate tale to tell, usually about health care. And this time, in classic Hellenic fashion on the last day of the Democratic primary season, she offered narrative punctuation: a gray sweatshirt with a picture of a vehemently orange car screeching to a halt at a highway barrier and the words THE END OF THE ROAD. I am not sure that Hillary Clinton noticed the sweatshirt, but she immediately understood what the woman was about. "Will you be able to get me health care?" Dinock asked, eyes welling, then overflowing. "I've had seizures since...
Those lucky enough to peek behind the ideological barrier in the midst of the Cold War found that the Soviet Union and Poland were not quite the countries of extreme oppression under harsh Communist regimes that they had expected...