Word: huffs
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...look at Huff’s career at Harvard shows how well many of the extension school students are able to integrate into the larger Harvard academic community. Like many extension school students, Huff can say she really knows Harvard professors—and knows them well. Currently, bona fide Harvard professors teach 70 percent of the extension school’s 560 course offerings, exposing the program’s 14,000 students to much of the same material that they teach to college students by day. However, many of the extension school students assert that they...
...Zygomates, a chichi wine bar near South Station, Audrey M. Huff, a fourth year extension school student, placed her glass of red wine on the steel bar and began to talk about the gap that separates extension school undergraduates from the Harvard college community...
...really amazing to see how the professors operate in the evening,” Huff said, turning in her tall, leather bar chair. “Many of them are much more accessible and open in the evenings because they have a sense that they are teaching classes geared toward their own colleagues since so many of the extension school students are working professionals themselves. They have a laid back attitude that a lot of students just don’t get to see in the more formal atmosphere of the day school. We really have the best...
...Huff is one such determined student whose work at the extension school has opened up a wealth of new academic doors. As a student with a GPA above a 3.0, Huff qualifies for special student status at the college—an attribute that allows her to take four classes per year during the day for the regular per-class Harvard tuition. But Huff has found that the day classes can be a tough experience, not because of the workload, but because of the difference in attitude that infiltrates Harvard during the daytime hours...
...definitely met some really condescending people at the day school,” Huff said. She paused to thank the bartender, another extension school student, for a cheese plate. “But I know that if I work hard and speak up, I’ll only be able to prove myself. It’s so strange, because when you take classes at night, you really see the difference when you go to day classes where the competition is so rampant. These college kids play mind games with each other in section and all really know...