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Course selection for first-years has always been rough, with many new students finding themselves adrift among the disappointing homogeneity of Core offerings, the impersonal vastness of Social Analysis 10 and the rigid format of some Expository Writing courses. This year, however, the first-year experience is beginning to change, as students find refuge in the newly expanded Freshman Seminar program...
...Freshman Seminar program began four decades ago as an attempt to improve undergraduate education during the first year of college. Today, seminars thrive due to their unique format. Somewhat less formal than other first-year courses, the seminars are graded pass-fail, limited to 12 students, and focused in depth on one specialized subject of interest to the professor—from calculating pi in Freshman Seminar 5 to searching for extraterrestrial intelligence in Freshman Seminar 35: “Are We Alone?” This structure contributes significantly to the seminars’ success, as students actively participate...
When Emily F. Stevens ’05, of Thayer Hall, took the stage with about 50 strapping first-year men, she went for the “package” category first. Her choices: “fragile, handle with care” or “wide load...
When he was a first-year, Lee said, the girls chose the other option...
...House who has spent her life studying the fine art of the cartoon. She received additional training at a little-known prep school in the California foothills dedicated to producing proficient cartoonists and abnormal people. Her painting appears on the cover of this year’s student and first-year telephone directories...