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...class. Of course, The Princeton Review does have a touch of social conscience. The Princeton Review runs free programs in inner cities and reveals its trade secrets in books you can buy for under a grand. But The Princeton Review is a firm, and as I learned in Ec10, firms are profit-maximizers. They charge whatever they can get, and it turns out that they can extort obscene amounts of money from enough people to make unintentional class warfare worth their while...
...Classes: Take a freshman seminar and actually get to know a professor. Don't fixate on your intended concentration. Your plans, interests, priorities will change. A reassuring story: I took three art classes plus a freshman seminar my first year, one Core (not Ec10) and only one class that eventually counted for my concentration. I am in an honors only concentration, yet I still have four more electives left. If it turns out that you're an art history lover, it's better to find out sooner rather than later and have to go to summer school to take "Landmarks...
...Ec10: Introduction to capitalism taught by G.O.P. guru Martin "Marty" S. Feldstein '61 and his legion of teaching fellow disciples. Usually the most popular class at Harvard...
...attitude. I have car loans to pay, a down payment on an apartment due soon and, without health insurance for the near future, a safety net to maintain. I have a job, but perhaps the most useful piece of advice I gleaned from Harvard's meat-and-potatoes, Ec10, was the importance of savings, and for soon-to-be impoverished students like myself, every penny counts. So I decide to take that $10 senior gift officers so often refer to and invest it at Cambridge Saving Bank...
...What could symbolize the relationship between administration and students better than an old-fashioned cattle brand? Not many choices here: Archie's "Lazy E" and Harry's "Rocking L" round out the possibilities. Minimizes the risk of stampede when filing out of an Ec10 lecture...