Word: coring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Most courses taught by superstars are huge Core classes, some regularly enroll about a thousand students. A Core course is like watching a lecture on T.V., but with uncomfortable seats and lousy audio. In these classes, the real teaching is done by teaching fellows (T.F.s), who range from the superb to the non-English-speaking. Shop around...
...Social life begins at home, first in randomly assigned entryways, and from sophomore year on in up to 16-person blocking groups (the core group of friends with whom you receive your Housing assignment). For students in a rush, grab-and-go lunches in Loker Commons are the norm, but it's not so unusual either to linger over an empty tray in your House dining hall through three cycles of conversation...
Most courses taught by superstars are huge Core classes, some regularly enroll about a thousand students. A Core course is like watching a lecture on T.V., but with uncomfortable seats and lousy audio. In these classes, the real teaching is done by teaching fellows (T.F.s), who range from the superb to the non-English-speaking. Shop around...
...single Harvard student emerging from an all-night and all-day job on a forgettable 15-pager to trek to the Core office is an ugly sight. Worse yet is the final day of reading period, when all of the campus is doing...
...something that needs to be done," he says. "At the core [advising] is a relationship between two people. You can't legislate to make sure a relationship between two people is run in a certain...