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...explains. She and a hometown friend from Newton. Mass joined a local Boy Scout Police Explorer post in 1972 when the national program became coeducational. In 1976, she joined the Harvard department as a radio dispatcher because at 19. "I was too young to take the civil service exam...
...senior who missed a spring History final sophomore year explains the general feeling. "It was my last exam and I was very far behind. I just wanted to get it over with, so I worked hard for two days and by the end of my cramming I was both mentally and physically upset...
Students also say the impending exam infringes on their vacation. "I felt pressure from June to September," one senior who asked to remain anonymous said yesterday. "The summer just dragged and I didn't do much better," he added. While the student could choose 3 out of 19 essays on the original one, the make-up asked the student to choose 3 out of 4 essays...
Merely because a student planned in advance to miss the exam did not make the process any easier. Scott Jacobs '85 missed a math exam last spring because of an operation he was to have two days later on his spine. He said he will now petition to take the entire course over again because he has forgotten so much...
While most of those taking exams this week find the process burdensome, there are those who found the time well-spent since last spring and feel they will fare much better now. "I feel great about it," Dave Delgado '85 said of his Calculus exam. "I had time to study my material and catch up on my work...