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...they seem to love Harvard students. 5) Design your own “start-up company” (i.e., lemonade stand). 6) Do business school and psych studies all summer long. Guaranteed $15 an hour. 7) Get some mileage out of that History of Art and Architecture coursework: Write a “Da Vinci Code” knock-off. 8) Put your online poker skills to the test: Go to Las Vegas and win your first million. Or lose next year’s tuition money. 9) Be like Leo in “The Departed?...
...students, and an assistant dean, met to determine the future direction of the undergraduate curriculum. Based on the undergraduate community’s apparent passion for extracurricular involvement, their proposal recommended that a committee be formed to explore ways to link students’ existing activities to their current coursework. This differs from the existing Bok Center program in that it lets students take initiative in relating their non-academic pursuits to classes instead of offering courses with a specific outside component...
...long been mutually beneficial. If the Task Force wishes to make students regard their academic life with the same excitement as they do their extracurricular affairs, it should focus on improving the quality of classes rather than borrowing students’ enthusiasm for the life they lead outside of coursework and risk infringing upon an arrangement that works so well...
...courses without sitting for a single final exam, ending up with perhaps the longest intersession of any student. The combination of her arts, humanities, and language courses—and the fact that she spent the following spring studying in Berlin—meant she did not have any coursework from early January until March. “[I] finally had a moment to sit down with my friends and have some meaningful conversations that weren’t predetermined by a syllabus,” Stebbins wrote in an e-mail. “It was a breath...
There are important initiatives that will help defray the costs of coursework, like putting needlessly expensive coursepacks online, and giving students the tools to purchase the cheapest books at locations other than the COOP. But it’s only an initiative like C-CAP that is going to assist the students dealing with the worst financial hardship, some of whom use their work-study money not just for themselves but to send home to their families...