Word: falling
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Procedural history is needed to address the question why I would raise the issues of the case of Peter Berkowitz in the public manner that I have. I took on Peter's case after being asked by two good friends to meet with him. The time was Fall...
...voting all week, there is still time for them to round up the necessary votes. The other item of business which the council took up on Sunday, and which concerns the larger student body is how to spend the $40,000 the council "lost" and re-found in the fall. This decision should be put to a campus-wide referendum. There is no doubt in our minds that by misplacing such a large amount of the student's money the council forfeited its right to decide how to spend...
Though I continue to fall into this trap every year, I now know that my mid-December visions of a worry-free vacation and a productive, efficient reading period are a stretch at best and imaginary at worst. It's not the workload that really bothers me. It's not even the schedule itself that makes me rue this time of year, because in some ways our post-break exam system is a blessing: no other school I know of gives its students quite this much time to prepare for exams and catch up on reading that got skimmed, forgotten...
...worst part is, it's really not so bad-at least it wouldn't be if everyone didn't continue to point out to me just how bad it is. Some of my relatives, who smilingly call our fall semester exam system "torture", unintentionally rub salt in an open wound. Most of the friends I've kept from high school are used to my touchiness on this issue by now. They still ask how long I'll be in town for, but they only raise their eyebrows or pat me comfortingly on the back in response. But by then...
...answer the surprised and aghast remarks of people who end their semesters for good at the end of the year. So, students of other colleges and people of the real world, please hold back your comments on our strange system. By pretending that taking a final for a fall semester class during the last week of January is perfectly normal, you'll be doing me and other Harvard students a very big favor...