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...extensively on his experiences as Harvard president. The speech, including some of his first public remarks on education since his resignation last year, came amidst protest and promised boycott from some Tufts faculty members, who objected to comments he made in 2005 about the intrinsic aptitude of women in math and science. Summers led with jokes that brought laughter from the audience of Tufts students and professors. He wryly said his view of academia before his Harvard presidency was one in which “everybody’s got the same objective and they’re all just...
...Just like somebody likes to remember poetry, I like math, so I like to remember pi,” said Rezny, an applied math concentrator who has practised reciting pi for six years and is a three-time winner of the department’s pi-recitation contest...
Above the bed of Kathryn G. Maxson ’10 hang authentic-looking replicas of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Maxson originally entered Harvard planning to become a history concentrator. Like many freshmen, she’s changed her mind and now plans to pursue math or science. But unlike most freshmen, Maxson plans to pursue these interests somewhere other than Harvard—at Duke University...
...know it’s hard, playing tennis. You want to sleep but you have to do to your homework. I worked my ass off.”Ko also struggled with the homeschooling dynamic. She sometimes fell dangerously behind. Once, she had to do an entire year of math and chemistry labs in one month. Although she was officially enrolled in Cambridge Academy, she had to teach herself everything—reading textbooks for most of her classes and listening to cassette tapes for her Spanish courses. “If you are stuck with like a math question...
...example, during my sophomore year in high school, I was one of two black students enrolled in my Algebra II class. I have this problem where I don’t really like math, so sometimes I would fall asleep in class. It turns out that the other black student had the same problem as well. Because we felt that both black people in the class couldn’t go to sleep at the same time—at least one of us had to be a “good” negro—we took turns...