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...students who wish to cut corners with their studies, the Undergraduate Council’s recent vote to allocate funds for the creation of an online study guide library seems almost too good to be true. Student-generated study guides??€”succinct little packages of reading summaries, source analyses, or useful formulas—often allow students to quickly scan through the basics of a semester-long course without ever having to attend a lecture or crack open a book...
...great number of Harvard undergrads only use study guides as a study supplement rather than as a substitute for attending class and completing assigned readings, the overwhelming clamor for the creation of a study guide library—a method for all students to have easy access to study guides??€”is an unfortunate reflection of many students’ desire to avoid going to class and doing their homework...
...valid for one year—was wasteful and inefficient, and an online version will save money and prove more environmentally beneficial. But the mere absence of hard copies is not a solution to the larger problem of the current guidebooks, print or online. In their current condition, these guides??€”specifically the Q Guide—need a major reconfiguration, and we can only hope that the shift to an online version will be a catalyst for the necessary improvements. In order to ensure that the print version of the Q Guide will never be missed...
...Like many students from mainland China, Chen, a native of Beijing, had to navigate the application process largely on her own. A loose network of friends, including other applicants, served as guides??€”even encouraging her to apply in the first place...
...Gelfand and Pacheco said a decision on publishing post-St. Martin’s would likely have to be made once they finish the 2009 series. Before its contract runs out with Let’s Go, St. Martin’s will publish 30 new guides??€”15 in November of 2007 and 15 a year later. The New York-based St. Martin’s Press also publishes books for The Crimson. —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu...