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...right to stake his claim as an EAS scholar. Lucky for you, despite the bevy of unavoidable but surmountable requirements, the East Asian Studies department is a pretty kick-ass place to spend three years if you are genuinely interested in anything related to Asia. History, Literature, Linguistics, Econ, Anthro, Religion, Sociology, or VES—EAS has a place for you. In fact, you can fulfill non-language and non-tutorial classes without ever taking a class in the department. Every single person in the EAS “office”—a yellow house hidden...
...this is a fine complement to those depressing “Writing About Illness” seminars.For those who prefer Adam Duritz to Adam Smith, there’s Professor Stephen Marglin’s Social Analysis 72, which offers a “critical approach” to econ. Basically, you get a full year’s Ec survey in one semester, but with a liberal twist. That’s a lot of ground to cover, but enrollees say it’s worth the work, and you get to hear Marglin point out why Mankiw...
...students are “simply trying to better themselves and are honored to be able to be part of the institution,” says Lewis, and they “deserve the same kind of respect that the College students deserve.”McAlmond, who took ECON E-10a, “Principles of Economics” online last year, never went to college. From 1970-1973 he fought in Vietnam, and afterwards got a job unloading rail cars at a grocery warehouse. Today he is the founder and president of one of Oregon?...
...There’s a natural tendency for people to hang out with people like them,” says Anna H. Yu ’06, adding that this is not confined to race. “Econ people talk to econ people, bio people talk to bio people...I don’t think it’s a problem...
She’s learning how to balance the challenging workload of the class she is taking, Econ S-10ab, “Principles of Economics,” with the distractions that confront Harvard students, including music in the Square and canoeing on the Charles...