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...Harvard students not only regularly pull all-nighters for papers or parties, but we also boast aggressively to each other about how little sleep we need. Relative degrees of lack of sleep constitute a main stain of Harvard casual conversation??something we can all “understand.” Peers, professors, and club leaders can sometimes reinforce this culture further by expecting top-notch work, accepting only grave illness as a reason for lateness or inadequate quality...
...spent enough time with them to see how their personalities have developed. Adam is easily distracted, while Mariam could flip through the pages of a book forever. Mariam speaks in short, complete sentences while Adam mimics adult conversation??complete with wild gesticulations and even pregnant pauses—all while failing to utter a single intelligible word. (The men in my family...what...
...currently stands, the motion would require students to have an “advising conversation?? with a member of one or more prospective concentrations during their freshman spring. These conversations represent a response to concerns that the later date will lead to poor pre-concentration course selection by freshmen, a particular problem in the sciences where strict course sequences can substantially limit the options of a student lacking the proper preparation...
...result of the increase. Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd said after the meeting that the rate at which the number of student groups grows “seems to be exponential” and that yesterday “was a good time to have a conversation?? with the CCL, a student-faculty committee which approves student groups, about the issue. The College has seen the addition of around 100 recognized student groups since 2003, committee members said. The Office of Student Activities released a report in August 2004 finding that Harvard has more student...
...Summers’ resignation thus poses an important challenge. As faculty members, we must articulate clearly and persuasively the reasons for our own discontent with the president. Moreover, we must take student grievances seriously by engaging undergraduates in conversation??publicly and privately—in an effort to restore their confidence in us as educators who are fully committed to Harvard’s long-term health. We must demonstrate our desire to work closely with students to reform the undergraduate curriculum, and we must devote ourselves more assiduously than ever to good teaching and advising. Together...