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...First-year or senior guy? First-year?...
...results of the survey will remain a secret until tomorrow when they are displayed as part of the annual Physics Department Puppet Show, in which second-year grad students traditionally skewer the faculty. First-year grad students and undergrads in the department flock to the show to see professors subtly (and not so subtly) mocked for ineptness in the classroom, for overworking their poor second-years in their laboratories and for doing useless research...
Discipline is high up on the president’s agenda as well. One of the most contested changes that Zhang instituted in1992 was a 20-day military training stint, mandatory for all first-year students and designed to instill in them the rigor and perseverance Zhang believed they needed for an indispensable filmmaking enterprise. In the second year, students are dispatched to farms and factories throughout the country for a “rural experience...
Many students who cheat in humanities classes say that they know exactly what they are doing. We revisit Luke. Luke admits that, as a first-year at Harvard, he constantly engaged in cheating with his roommates. “It’s sort of amazing to me sometimes how easy it is to get away with stuff in Harvard exams,” Luke says. “There’ll be 300 people in a single room, and only four little people in the front looking for cheaters. When you’re taking those big freshmen...
...harder to pinpoint. Often there really is only one way to solve a math or physics problem, and professors are unable to prove cheating when students have duplicate answers. But this was not true in the case of Jennie C. Lin ’03. When Lin was a first-year, someone in an organic chemistry course copied her work during a midterm. Her creatively incorrect answers immediately gave the cheater away. Lin recounts the story of the professor calling her one morning and thanking her for her ineptitude. “He told me that if I had answered...