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...course, all of this came true. My parents have enjoyed watching Kirsten score goals for the nationally ranked women’s ice hockey team. I’m not so sure how exciting it was for them to watch me stretch during warm-ups before football games. Her GPA trumps mine, and I have a really difficult time trying to explain to people that Harvard’s infamous grade inflation applies to her, but not to me. Kirsten is also involved some impressive student organizations and other extracurricular activities on campus. Sure, I write a column...
...promise.” 10) Submit a recipe to HUDS detailing the authentic way to make lo- mein out of Adams’s beloved canine, Pip. 11) Sabotage the pot market in Cambridge—without “inspiration,” the Adams House GPA will plummet. 12) Wallpaper Adams with articles from the Salient, and allow a minority uprising to do your work for you. 13) Bribe the MAC construction workers to expand the dining hall skylight. With a wrecking ball. 14) Sharpie “I’m really fucking glad...
...PREJUDICEThe difficulties faced by students regarding creative writing workshops pales in comparison with the challenge of achieving the elusive holy grail of Harvard creative writing: the creative thesis. Spots are even harder to get because instructors can only advise two or three theses. Only English concentrators with a GPA of 3.4 or higher are allowed to apply, and generally those who have taken creative courses are the only ones who stand a chance. Applicants submit proposals in the February of their junior year and languish for a month before finding out if they got in. Even the most talented students...
...syllabus, you realize that you do not recognize the characters in which the syllabus is written. 5) On Friday morning, your professor announces his intention to wage a private war against grade inflation. 6) On Monday morning, your professor announces his intention to wage a private war against your GPA. 7) As you walk into section, you hear “Oh my God, it’s like a Phi Beta Kappa reunion in here!” 8) Your TF reveals that 60% of your final grade depends on your ability to actually feed the world, and only...
Rules are rules, and however much College students despise the Core (and will probably come to despise its successor), they also must cope with it. Only the most brazen, worldly-wise student, at ease with casting his GPA to the wind, will remain obdurate to the Core’s nefarious invitation to partake of novel “global perspectives”—generously complimented by a course’s tinge of academic ease...