Word: decentering
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...classes don’t have any official prerequisites, the department suggests taking at least one introductory course before attempting a 100-level class. It’s good advice. Trust me: you don’t want to tackle the nature of existence before you can write a decent essay. To help you write that perfect paper, you’ll be assigned to a faculty member (not a TF) for advising, and despite the lax course requirements—12 courses for the elective track, 13 for honors—you’ll probably need...
...Harvard humanities student’s biggest nightmare. Those people are absolutely right. Any real math class—Math 1a, Math 1b, etc., etc.—satisfies the requirement; of course, any class with that many pre-meds is also bound to send any decent humanities student straight to the shrink.That’s where Quantitative Reasoning comes in with some watered down math classes and a cushy core title. They throw “Reasoning” into the title to make the requirement sound less daunting, and it does momentarily fool some of the more...
Here is your first installment of Ivy football picks. Now I say first hopefully, because if I’m at all decent at this, maybe they’ll let me do it every week. As if that’s not enough pressure, I didn’t re-enter my NFL betting pool and Chris Simms apparently is not a good fantasy quarterback. So this column may be all that’s left for me in this world in terms of proving my football acumen. I can already hear the grumbling: “Picking...
Movies aren't banished straight to video because they're bad. A reasonably smart marketing exec with a splicing machine and a decent song can make a huge profit out of bad. If some guy at home could cut together that YouTube trailer where The Shining is a touching father-son comedy, then the Fox marketing division can make Date Movie look good in a 30-sec. TV spot. That's why studio marketers are better at hoodwinking the customer than those two guys Huck and Jim picked up on the river. The biggest sin a director can commit...
...shot very badly,” Farrar said. “Their goalie made some decent saves, but we also tended to throw in the area where he is more likely to get an arm. It just can’t continue...