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...persist.GROWING PAINSThe Freshman Seminar Program was introduced in the 1959-1960 academic year to provide first-years with the experience of small-group instruction by Harvard faculty members.Traditionally, the program offered 30 seminars each year. Since 2000, the program has grown exponentially and now provides a cross-sections of all disciplines and all Harvard schools.This year, the program offers 82 seminars in the fall term and 50 in the spring. These 132 courses mark the most that have ever been offered in one academic year. But this record-breaking number was paralleled this fall by a record-breaking number...
...students explain how exactly to be a uterus through dancing. The show may be a “slight exaggeration” from real medical school, however. “I don’t recall any dancing,” says Sam B. Dubal, a first-year student in the audience, of his classes. “But we did have many great dissections.” While most of the show was done in good fun, med student Regan W.J. Bergmark’s mousy portrayal of anatomy professor Trudy Van Houten, while considered truthful...
...life lessons learnt during a UC campaign might be less beneficial than candidates—successful or not— think. I looked on earlier this year as the competition toughened for my classmates, and as some first-year UC campaigns came to ape their Washington counterparts. Candidates, concerned with distinguishing themselves from a large pool, seemed to lose focus on what was important or relevant to the position they sought. Instead, they resorted to provocative slogans and ploys that served more to distract than to inform...
...McLeod say their own difficult, at times even “terrifying,” transitions to Harvard from communities that they felt did not adequately prepare them academically led them to consider proposing a pass/no-record system for first-semester freshmen—a system MIT has in place—as a way of easing the first-year experience...
...miniature fast food meals,” small enough to hold in the palm of one’s hand. “In 10 years, half our country will be dead because of obesity, so here’s our market,” said first-year student Adam R. Ludwin, moving to the next slide, which he had never seen before. “Skinny people who surf,” he described the next image, without missing a beat. Such was the nature of The B.S. Contest—with B.S. standing for “business...