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...sources of funding. David A. Martin ’07, who received a Pell Grant and whose tuition was covered by the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative, said that he noticed an increase in socioeconomic diversity during his time at Harvard. Martin said that a diversity of backgrounds added to classroom discussion, where lower-income students could help illuminate the divide between the real world and the classroom. “There’s a difference between what you read in Ec 10 and what you experience,” he said. —Staff writer Lingbo...
...never replace experience, and for that reason she never considered an arts-related concentration. Theater, for her, is something that can’t really be taught. “I feel like it’s stuff that can’t necessarily be learned in the classroom, and I just like learning by doing and learning from the people I work with…it’s always something that I love to do and want to do,” she says.For Lloyd-Bollard, graduation may only be the beginning. “There?...
...which is sponsored by the Harvard Dance Program. Last year, Ho was a dance proctor for the Freshman Arts Program as well as the producer and stage manager of the Arts First Dance Festival.Ho has been involved in CityStep since freshman year, both as a teacher and as a classroom director. “I love kids and I love dance,” she says. “CityStep allows me to do both. It’s been a really great thing for me. The people in CityStep are the most enthusiastic and dedicated people on campus...
...tone of Harvard’s artistic community as a whole. But before all this, Whitaker left an unsatisfying freshman rowing experience to pursue her love of movies. Whitaker, who is also and inactive Arts editor, has followed a passion for film studies from her kitchen table to the classroom and beyond at Harvard. The silver screen was an integral part of Whitaker’s childhood. The New York City native fondly recounts memories of her high school days, when going to the movies every weekend—and analytically “dissecting” each one over...
Come June, 24-year-old Japanese graduate student Yusuke Sakamoto will face an unusual final exam. While most of his classmates at Tokai University near Tokyo will be sweating out answers in a classroom, Sakamoto will be in pit lane at France's legendary Le Mans race track, hoping his 550-horsepower school project survives one of the world's great endurance races...