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...came to Harvard to be surrounded by some of the world’s brightest young adults. Unfortunately, intellectual distinction is not at all what I have found...
...socio-medical unit that HIV/AIDS will have a chance at being vanquished at the hands of humans.Courses such as Life Sciences 1 are crucial to developing the necessary rapport between the sociological and scientific academic spheres. Harvard’s pre-medical students are inarguably some of the brightest young scientists in the world, but there is also a population of dedicated and innovative students in the social sciences who strive to help alleviate HIV’s reign of terror. By bringing these two groups of students together in a class that interests them both, Harvard is creating...
...universities that resulted from post-9/11 policies, which caused major delays and complications for many seeking student visas.Under-Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes told a summit of university presidents in Washington last Friday that the U.S. benefits from attracting the best and brightest international students. She added that studying in the U.S. exposes foreign students to American values.The initiatives for international students include the creation of a new Fulbright award to fund the graduate studies of “outstanding” foreign students in science and technology, Hughes said. She also described...
...sipping tea with my professors or discussing world affairs over a sandwich at lunch. Life would become one big journey of philosophizing and intellectual discussion with some of the greatest minds of this century, who would (after a few minutes of enlightening discourse) inform me that I was the brightest student they had ever met and that I would go on to one day do many great and brilliant things...
It’s hard to be mad at Teach for America (TFA). The program has done so much over the past 15 years to draw attention to the inexcusable inequalities that exist in our public schools. It’s led so many of the brightest students in the nation to seriously consider teaching as a post-college option—eight percent of us here at the College applied last year, and numbers will probably continue to rise.Yet, for a program bringing top minds into the education world, TFA is sending some very dangerous messages about the teaching...