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...person class, balancing on one leg with his hands clasped together as if he were praying. “Whatever it is you’re holding on to, let go of everything less than happiness,” Pacelli says. “I had an exam on Friday, so I had to go to yoga Thursday,” says Anna Reinert ’08, who has faithfully gone to Pacelli’s class since freshman year and describes him to friends as “a Hindu Billy Crystal.”Pacelli...
...year of existence in good stead. Recent changes in its scheduling and recruiting practices have boosted membership and retention. The addition of a program, where members sign up for specific performance dates well in advance, has also cut down on some past difficulties with keeping site attendance up during exam-heavy periods...
...lessons that Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96 taught his students in “Positive Psychology” this semester, yesterday’s might have been the most surprising. When you are the instructor of an 856-student class and you find that the final exam is missing, run as fast as you can. At 9:15 a.m., the students in Harvard’s largest course this semester packed seven lecture halls across campus, waiting to take their test. At 10:15 a.m., they were still waiting. Ben-Shahar attributed the lack of exams...
...Exams are upon us, along with the all-nighters and caffeine-induced jitters that accompany them. Let FM guide you down the primrose path of Red Bull and Rockstar to show you what drink of choice will help you stay awake over those textbooks. Unlike heroin, caffeine is best used when ingested in small doses throughout the night. According to a study co-authored by Charles A. Czeisler, a professor of sleep medicine at the Medical School, frequent, small amounts of caffeine can help maintain cognitive abilities for extended periods. On average, a cup of brewed coffee from the dining...
Much like waffles on Sundays and gratuitously awkward ice cream bashes, reading period is revered as a venerable part of Harvard’s fabric. Yet T.S. Eliot, Class of 1909 and Henry B. Adams, Class of 1858 managed to graduate sans a break to cram between classes and exams. That’s right—reading period actually began a paltry 79 years ago, under the auspices of then-University President A. Lawrence Lowell. “Reading period was initially a faculty benefit, and students benefited indirectly,” says Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor...