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...Your instructors will see everything you write. Everybody is familiar with the sanitized, official jargon used by the nice people who publish the CUE Guide. If 90 percent of the students in a course complain that a professor didn't understand his material, this will be reported as "a significant percentage of students had some difficulty following the lectures," "Professor Quigley's last original thought came in the 1950's" becomes "while students applaud Professor Quigley's mastery of the history of his field, they long for the inclusion of more contemporary perspectives." And so on. But though the world...
...CUE Guide time again, when Harvard students have their chance to speak candidly, and with devastating anonymity, about their courses, professors and, most especially, their teaching fellows. TFs who score 4.5 or above will be awarded a "Certificate of Excellence," redeemable, I'm told, for a plain croissant and a medium lemonade at the Kendall Square Au Bon Pain...
...many ways the CUE Guide is Harvard's answer to Mardi Gras. It is a reckless bacchanal, a time when values are inverted and hierarchies smashed. The mute speak; the evaluated evaluate. The "Justice" TF who gave you the B-? Nail 'er! And why not add something about her appearance while you're at it? Also the chemistry TF who humiliated you in section that one time--don't forget to mention that he taught an entire class with fly down, displaying to all the world his purple bikini underwear...
...sort of unmediated honesty that most people can do without. (Of course, it can be tempting, not to say cathartic, to take a good whack at the guy responsible for the 12 most boring and/or humiliating hours of your semester. In extreme cases you can always call the CUE office and request that they suppress your most vitriolic remarks...
...CUE Guide Evaluations are not anonymous. It is true that your name never appears on the evaluation form. But your TF probably has a pretty good idea who you are. You may well be the only sophomore, female, East Asian studies concentrator who writes in green pen and dots her i's with little circles. Furthermore, your TF, having wracked his or her brain trying to read your midterm and final, will probably be pretty familiar with the idiosyncrasies of your handwriting. You don't have to go to FBI training camp to figure this stuff out, especially...