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First and foremost, meet as many people as you can. See what a range of people will be at your parties, your dining halls and in your classes for the next four years. Stay up until odd hours of the morning going to a cappella jams, sporting events, plays, parties and just talking to other students. The Crimson Key Society has a lot of good stuff to say about this place, but for an accurate portrait of life on campus, try to meet both those students who love the College and those who are less enamored. If you are well...
...world's foremost scholars in Africancolonial history, Vail coauthored a number ofbooks and articles, including Capitalism andColonialism in Mozambique...
...century's foremost woman anthropologist, Margaret Mead was an American icon. On dozens of field trips to study the ways of primitive societies, she found evidence to support her strong belief that cultural conditioning, not genetics, molded human behavior. That theme was struck most forcefully in Mead's 1928 classic, Coming of Age in Samoa. It described an idyllic pre-industrial society, free of sexual restraint and devoid of violence, guilt and anger. Her portrait of free-loving primitives shocked contemporaries and inspired generations of college students--especially during the 1960s sexual revolution. But it may have been too good...
Soon it dawned on a few insightful souls, Godel foremost among them, that this way of looking at things opened up a brand-new branch of mathematics--namely, metamathematics. The familiar methods of mathematical analysis could be brought to bear on the very pattern-sprouting processes that formed the essence of formal systems--of which mathematics itself was supposed to be the primary example. Thus mathematics twists back on itself, like a self-eating snake...
...forget that a Harvard University Guard is first and foremost a Harvard University employee who happens to be a guard. And for all the Harvard employees belonging to other unions: if you think that your jobs are safe, look at the recent issues of Inside Harvard. Many support staff positions are becoming exempt, just so Harvard can make your union weaker...