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Student dissatisfaction with College advising has almost become a given. First-year advising is inconsistent at best with far too many first-years only going to their advisers for signatures on their study cards and plans of study. And advising does not get much better in the concentrations—particularly in large ones, where students can go three years without substantive academic advice on course selection...
King is also the professor who teaches KSG’s week-long crash course on how Congress works, which is offered annually to first-year members of the House of Representatives...
Life in Harvard Yard isn’t perfect. First-years often find themselves forced to develop their courses of study without the resources they need, and they face a social scene that makes any stories they may have heard about the glories of college life seem like sick jokes. So we are happy to see that the recently released Harvard College Curricular Review report tries to address first-year problems...
...would like to convince myself that all of my choices were the right ones. After all, in the fall of 2002, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby told incoming first-year students: “You are here to work, and your business here is to learn.” Next year, I’m going to graduate school, a path my grades and my Crimson leadership experience no doubt made possible. And as seniors enter the competitive market for jobs and other post-graduate opportunities, no one denies that a high GPA is an advantage...
...doubts won’t subside. A few weeks before Kirby encouraged them to work, the same first-year students received a letter from then Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 titled: “Slow Down: Getting More out of Harvard by Doing Less.” Part of me wishes I had slowed down, relaxed, or taken other paths. In high school, I had dreams of playing Division I basketball. Height and talent might have been limiting factors, but so was the devotion to other pursuits—academic and extracurricular?...