Word: guts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...piercing hurt, if you got it done at Hubba-Hubba or not, and where the ring goes when you wear a tight shirt. I'm all for body-piercing--sadomasochism can be fun. But please don't leave me staring at an empty void in the middle of your gut, particularly if it has lint in it. In the midst of a Cantabrigian winter, an exposed bellybutton belongs in only one place--the abdomen of little Tori as she lights up her daddy's show, educating all of us on what college life is really like...
Contrary to what the Confi-Guide says, counting the number of dirty white baseball caps is not necessarily an effective measure of a gut. The quantity of plaid shirts should also be taken into account...
When I was a first-year I heard about all these courses that were supposedly "guts," such as "Heroes for Zeroes" and "Jesus and the Easy Life." Well, I soon discovered I could not find a class that had a low work-load and an easy grading scale. The moral of this story is that you can avoid work in a class at Harvard, but its virtually impossible to have a work-gut be an easy grade too. (If you find one let me know.) It seems Harvard has been trying to remove the really easy courses, and others, like...
...while you can find courses with low work-loads, I have never found a true "grade-gut" here. People talk about them, but there always seems to be a catch. If you don't believe me, try enrolling in the next one you hear about--trust me, you will be disappointed...
...solution to these problems is clear. Disbanding specific core classes in favor of groupings for regular, departmental courses will enhance flexibility without compromising quality. If some Core courses can't survive in existing departments, they were probably too "gut"-like in the first place to have deserved a slot in Harvard's curriculum...