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They say Harvard smells like money, and with $25 billion in the bank, the University can’t help but agree. Still, it’s not just the size of the endowment that matters—it’s what the Harvard diploma can help us kids bilk from outside donors. Grant opportunities are now centrally listed at www.funding.fas.harvard.edu, so go forth and get to lootin?...
Back in 1998, Cooper received his high school diploma with a 2.2 grade point average. He had no plans to apply to college. Instead, he ditched his books in exchange for some fatigues, and enlisted in the United States Army. He began his four-year career as an American solider in Korea, where he was stationed for about a year. From there, he was shipped off for another six months, this time to Egypt. He was a sergeant by the time he got back to the States...
Feldman said secondary fields are an inferior option because though they appear on the transcript, they are absent on the diploma. He also said some secondary field studies will actually require students to take more courses than joint concentrations, citing the concentration combination of Physics with Mathematics or Astronomy...
...overwhelming majority of us didn’t really have to grow up worrying about the basics—food, water, shelter, etc. If we did, we probably wouldn’t have made it to Harvard. Most of us tend to take the comfortable routes to the diploma while we are here as well. Sure, a lot of us work hard, but there is a certain security in all of it because we are almost always in pursuit of some well-established objective—the A, the elite extracurricular position, or the prestigious job. We let our filled...
...anything surefire. I was trying to be esoteric. I was trying to be Woody. I hadn't settled on me yet. I talked about not being the class clown; I was the class comedian. The class clown was the guy at graduation who walked out to get his diploma, would hike up his gown, be totally naked, moon his parents and run offstage. That was the class clown. I was the comedian. I was the guy who talked him into doing it. That wasn...