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...teaching fellow Mihir S. Sharma said that the course??s large size is often deceptive, as most of the actual teaching is done in sections of about 20 students...
This question, from a friend here in London who used to live in the U.S., took me by surprise. My first reaction was a reflexive “Of course??—I couldn’t, off the top of my head, think of any other nationality I’d rather...
...here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxical your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course??and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud...
...Harvardians are bred to be competitive, of course??to never settle for second best, to climb the ladder until we run out of rungs. We are valedictorians and salutatorians, merit scholars and varsity athletes whose entire lives have been defined by the quest for achievement and success. Here in Cambridge, surrounded by the crème de la crème of America’s future ruling class, we compete for everything—good grades, extracurricular offices, club memberships, summer internships, Law School acceptances, consulting jobs and of course, attractive significant others...
...less difficult than picking the ideal concentration for four years is choosing the correct courses semester to semester. For many, the CUE’s guide is a godsend; it allows them to sort out energetic and responsive professors from less inspiring ones, to get a handle on a course??s workload, and to build a shopping list which will yield a pleasurable semester that balances a four-course workload with aplomb...