Word: exam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unlike the feeling of euphoria I have gotten for the past three years after handing in that last blue book, this time around I developed a sinking feeling in my stomach as I realized that by finishing my final exam I was ending my career at Harvard...
...thinking about all this as I walked through the Yard after my last exam. The sun shone brightly on the trees and the carefully planted flowers were in full bloom. Students were throwing frisbees, and a tour group was staring attentively at the Crimson Key guide as he stood on the steps of Widener explaining its history. On such days, Harvard seems to me to be one of the most beautiful places in the world--an idyllic institution serving some of the finest minds in the country...
...point. I remember Dr. Whittlesly. I took his Geography of South America course for my science credit my senior year. I was agitated. The science credit was mandatory and I had waited too long, but his was the most noted "gut" course in the curriculum: His final exam was invariably based on five books on this reading list. If you read those, you were home free. I had other things to do that spring and I didn't go to any classes. I read the five books and sure enough, with a great sigh of relief I saw that...
...professor sighed, then announced quite smartly that he wasn't going to pass anyone, however proficient his performance on the final exam, he was laying eyes on for the first time...
...only is the Crimson matched up against Georgia in front of the Bulldogs' home crowd--which often numbers into the thousands--the Harvard players are also finishing up their final exam period. Many of the players returned to Cambridge from Princeton last weekend just in time for the first week of testing only to depart for Athens on Wednesday...