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...certain je ne sais quoi. Like any love affair, the beginning was magical—shiny early acceptance letters, bright new hoodies, a party-filled prefrosh weekend. But these great feelings continued through a virtually seamless first year of good friends, great professors, solid grades, and a fulfilling extracurricular activity—The Crimson. Like a 15-year-old virgin in her first relationship, I was ready for my promise ring to Cambridge.Then this year, something I had only thought to be rumor hit: sophomore slump. Suddenly, work got harder, relationships got more complicated, and I slipped into an increasingly...
...unfamiliar texts. One text may provide background for another, or offer an important critique, or update an outdated argument. If we cut one, we might as well cut the other. Professors who overwhelm their students with copious amounts of reading are doing them a disservice. Balancing social and extracurricular commitments with a four- or five-course load is tough; engaging fruitfully with those courses is tougher. Certainly, undergrads should be prepared to work—and “work hard,” as Tisch Professor of History Niall Ferguson puts it. But they simply do not have...
...Student Advisory Board (SAB). Under the new program, fellows will not only fill the entryway community-building function that prefects do, but will also serve as informal academic advisors to a group of 10 freshmen. Peer advisers will be expected to meet their advisee group weekly and to offer extracurricular and college-life advice. Some advising fellow applicants said that when forced to choose between several extracurricular activities, the prefect program had been the first to be relinquished. But they said the new program’s $1,000 stipend persuaded them to apply. “I looked into...
...religious events are admirably in touch with their cultures, a Christian who is religious enough to regular Memorial Church or St Paul’s Cathedral is painfully unprogressive. Because of this, being openly Christian at Harvard proves to be a burden. Defending Christian values becomes an extracurricular activity unto itself: students who do so are thought of as moralists or dubbed reactionaries. Last fall, when Harvard Right to Life published anti-abortion posters—though the organization is secular, objection to abortion is common to most Christians—many students ripped the posters down.It is not right...
Drake—who has managed student events like the Leverett House ’80s Dance and the Junior Class Dance and has served as president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club—has focused his extracurricular activities on the arts ever since participating in the Freshman Arts Program...