Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Science students live on another planet. Their courses are incredibly rigorous; if you don't keep up with the work every week, you'll fall behind your classmates. And since the courses are graded with fancy scientific Gaussian bell curves--which rate your work not only on how good it...
Most students fall in the middle of these extremes, however, placing academics in a central and important place in their lives but not letting them edge out the other things that make Harvard an attractive place. And there are good professors and good departments here, if you're persistent enough...
Freshman Week is like a bad simile--self-conscious, strained, shallow, you want to say everything, but end up conveying only your desperation. You enter Harvard Yard and think, "Well, this is the beginning of a new chapter in my life," and then try to write it without understanding the...
Moving in will be a mob scene. If such situations upset you, bring plenty of Valium. Dope is usually effective, but may encourage your paranoia.
It's worth your time to muddle through, however, and if you don't find something you like the first time, try again, and this time show a little spirit. Work up some enthusiasm. Freshman seminars, mostly taught by professors, are among the best opportunities you will have here. The...