Word: classroom
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...that they or fellow classmates have been excluded from courses. Maybe just another harrowing shopping period fable, or maybe time to put our collective foot down. One colleague related to me the story of a professor who requested that all freshmen and sophomores should immediately leave the classroom because this course "was simply over their heads, it would be a waste of time for you to take it." Her reasoning was that successful contribution to the course required a somewhat developed knowledge of gender theory. A student told the professor that she was a sophomore, but had already taken...
Another student not three hours after I heard the above story told me that he had just crept inside the door of a classroom when another student entered. The professor, already dismayed at what he perceived to be intolerable over-crowding, demanded that the student leave immediately. The student tried to manage some sort of breathless defense, but the professor did not relent. "Leave now. There are too many of you. You are taking up all the oxygen." This student then left, albeit very bewildered and disappointed. The professor then instructed all freshman and seniors to leave the room; they...
Judging from the many exhibitions of achievement, it is clear that these people have been educated very well both inside and outside the classroom. But in one critical area of life I have been disappointed to find most Harvard students lacking: home training...
Maybe it was because I had never truly shopped, but the first week of classes this year seemed like more of a zoo than ever before. One Sever classroom filled to capacity 10 minutes before lecture and the line of prospective students snaked down the hall. A student standing in the doorway began to shout a repetition of what the professor was saying to the students who were standing outside, so that those of us who had the privilege of being seated in the back of the classroom got to hear the class in echo form. At the same time...
...labeled "Sectioning Form") but I later learned that it was a lottery form in disguise. My plans for taking that class were suddenly in jeopardy. No matter what particular comedy befell each class on my list, all over campus the theme seemed to be shortage: of syllabi, of classroom space, of teaching fellows and of classes themselves...