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Your local Harvard marketeer has probably touted the College’s thousands of course listings as a perk of being a member of the Class of 2013. While the academic options at Harvard are indeed expansive, many of you will find your schedules restricted by the few introductory courses that serve as entries on your dismal pre-med checklist or pre-requisites for that tantalizing econometrics seminar you’d like to eventually take...
...Freshmen often find intro classes—which each enroll hundreds of students a semester—to be impersonal, challenging, and even outright annoying. Here are a few tips to minimize your pain...
...aren’t getting the help you need in section. Former students claim that almost every exam question has a catch, so proceed with extreme mathematical caution. If you make it through a question without noticing something difficult or tricky, chances are you need to look back to find your mistake...
...Section reading is a borderline case. You might participate better if you’ve done it, but you could spend a bunch of time on this and then find that it never comes up. The latter scenario is slightly more common. That said, it’s generally not a bad idea to figure out what the reading’s about (via the Internet) if you’re going to need to discuss...
...don’t mean to say that you should be skipping sections that are graded on participation or lectures where you’ll have to take notes. But you will find that many of your classes don’t fall into either of these categories. And in a 9 a.m. class that you’re probably going to doze off a bit in anyway...who’s to say that you wouldn’t be better off getting a few extra hours of shut-eye in your...