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...They complain, for instance, that there is no assistance in picking courses and that the advisors are bad. Seeing as I transferred from a school with 16,000 undergraduates, was often closed out of classes required for my major three times in a row, and the term advisor wasn’t really a part of the UCLA vocabulary, I am quite happy with a concentration advisor and an Allston Burr Senior Tutor— not to mention the 15 other tutors in the House there to offer help. A friend of mine once complained that picking classes himself...
...have also heard people complain that Harvard is not a party school. I find this comment to be oddly amusing seeing as when we all applied to Harvard I am quite certain it was not because of the party scene. Coming from a school where large frat parties on Thursday nights is the norm, I can tell you that drunken debauchery at one school is just about the same as drunken debauchery at the next—except at UCLA people can actually dance and you have a little better shot of finding someone attractive when you have drunk goggles...
...we’d like to tip our hats to the folks at HUDS who claimed that they would renovate all of Harvard’s dining halls in just a few short years. People might grumble about dining hall fare, but no one can complain about the outcome of these recent and laudable efforts to improve the student experience...
...seems hardest to defend the film from the last group of detractors: those who complain that it panders to the West in the hopes of repeating Lagaan's success abroad. The movie does come with a full load of Orientalist clich?s. There are far too many elephants, dancing girls, and cows walking about, and the British officer gets a suspicious amount of screen time, suggesting that this film was carefully calculated to do well with audiences in Britain and America. But for all its stereotypes and implausibilities, this is a movie worth defending: because if everyone attacks The Rising...
Experts note that the social phenomenon of people marrying and starting families later allows parents a gap during which they can break away from the old ways. Some couples with married kids complain that the next generation is too slow to change its approach to holidays. That's why parents like the Schwartzes take off and leave the adult kids to fend for themselves. "After our holiday in Paris," Dianne Schwartz says, "I realized I'd needed to nudge the kids into starting their own traditions. After all, it's part of the growth process...