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...have been working on team defense over exam period,” Cserny said. “I think our team defense was really good at the beginning of the game and we maintained it for the rest of the game...
...University Hall can do this in a way that doesn’t discriminate against either morning people or late-night people. It should adopt the Wellesley system of final examination in which students have a week-long period during which they can elect to take any final exam for any class within certain hours of the day. Wellesley students simply have to check in with a proctor at the library, pick up an exam and go into a quiet room to take their tests. The proctors time the students and keep track of the exam rooms. This way, students...
There, are, obviously, big differences between Wellesley and Harvard. But these are not insurmountable. Instead of using Lamont for testing, why not set up the Science Center as a final exam zone, allowing students to pick up exams and test in shifts in the large lecture halls? And if FAS decides it doesn’t trust undergraduates not to divulge information about the contents of final exams to others yet to take them, why not set up a slightly more rigid system in which each exam is still scheduled for a certain day, but students can choose to take...
...bottom line is that students at the College should be able to choose what time of day to take an exam. It will require some administrative hassle, but student scholarship and, critically, their mental health during this cold and dark time of year would markedly improve...
...sunless Sunday revealed an Arctic expanse, one almost expected to see Jake Gyllenhaal scampering down Mt. Auburn St., pursued by a pack of roving wolves (or at least members of the Fox Club). But take a step back in time—Saturday had been even worse. Exam-burdened students familiar with the punishments of cold, white, unforgiving academics spent hours becoming acquainted with the trials of cold, white, unforgiving precipitation. Irish-literature students’ souls swooned slowly as they heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon...