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...more likely to find a professor with whom they can establish rapport.“If there’s one professor and I don’t like him, too bad for me,” says Amy P. Heinzerling ’08, who liked both her Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) 8, “History of the Earth,” instructors. “If there’s two professors, there’s more of a chance that I’ll click with one of them.”TEAM PLAYERSTeam teaching...
...earth doesn't need to move, however, for people to keep dying. Indonesian authorities say the vast majority of the wounded are in serious condition, and last week up to 20 were still perishing every day. Despite the addition of four field hospitals, existing facilities are badly overstretched. Bantul's hospital does not have enough beds for all the injured, and some are parked in cots in the hallways or on bamboo mats on the floor. Even the healthy are taking shelter in hospitals. "For every patient you have three to four family members," says Harsaran Pandey, the World Health...
While Harvard students were busy cramming for their last finals, Cabot House tutor Myles G. Osborne approached Second Step, a rock face three hours away from the summit of the highest mountain on earth. But he never made it to the top—instead, he saved a man’s life. It was 7 a.m. on the morning of May 26, and Osborne and his team had been climbing for over seven hours since the night before. They were in their tenth week on Mount Everest, and it was their third attempt at reaching the summit. With...
...Sciences 110, “Automatic Computing” was the second-largest class at the College, reported the names of a few of the suspected cheaters to their senior tutors and advisers.Only a week later, 13 students in Science B-16, “The History of the Earth and Life,” taught by late professor of Geology Stephen J. Gould, were caught cheating on their take-home midterm and received zeros, according to a Crimson article.These incidents caused little stir on campus, but for some, they exposed a competitive atmosphere at the College that can push...
Holman was a prodigiously restless world traveler in the early 19th century, a time before Ambien and JetBlue when the world was a dangerous, miserably uncomfortable place to travel. He circled the earth, traversed Siberia, roamed the Australian outback and the Brazilian rain forest, climbed Vesuvius during an eruption, hunted elephants in Ceylon and slave ships in the Atlantic and wrote best-selling books about it all. He did all this despite a grave handicap: he was blind...