Word: math
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hated school. From age twelve or 13 I knew I wanted to be a movie director, and I didn't think that science or math or foreign languages were going to help me turn out the little 8-mm sagas I was making to avoid homework. During class I'd draw a little image on the margin of each page of the history or lit. book and flip the pages to make animated cartoons. I did just enough homework to get promoted every year with my friends and not fall to the wrath of my academically minded father. I give...
...Math S-1e, "Calculus I": 103 enrolled...
...might have to take such unethical courses as ECON S-1330: Math for Economists; or SPAN S-P: Spanish for Business; or even CREA S-165: Writing Grant Proposals...
...interfered with their schoolwork: "I wouldn't have done any anyway," Langerman claims. Elvy chimes in: "It was a choice between the real world and school. I've chosen the real world." In reality, it has convinced Elvy and Langerman to change their majors from Philosophy and Applied Math, respectively, to Computer Science...
...sexism restricted to lecturers. Liia Annus Vilms '60, now a software development engineer at Hewlett-Packard in Colorado, majored in math and had to take introductory physics. There were only a dozen women in her class of 300, and she was the only women in her lab section. After all the Harvard students teamed up," "my section leader made no effort to get me a partner and told me to work by myself," she recalls...