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Spence was unprepared for the level of work Harvard required. “I had never even heard the word calculus before and I wanted to be a biochemistry concentrator,” she laughs. Spence’s shaky math skills, something that she attributes in large part to the limited curriculum of her high schools, meant that she spent most of her first year catching up. Frustrated with academics, Spence threw herself into her extracurricular activities—rowing, playing viola in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and writing a column in an English newspaper contrasting college life...
Fair enough. Here it goes. From here on out, Harvard is playing for its postseason life. I’m no math whiz, but a cursory look at the geek-tastic Pairwise Rankings, almost always a direct prognosticator of NCAA tournament selection, reveals that the Crimson’s No. 16 standing this late in the season—in a 16-team tournament—has pushed its bubble to the point of bursting...
...frenzied flower-selling activity in the hallways—“Buy a Rose for Community Service!”—spurs frantic discussion among the cliques. Should you send one to your secret crush with a cryptic message? A real message? Should it arrive during math or English? Do you think you even have a chance? Thus student groups increase their budgets—and often their ubiquitous social “slush funds”—with the cash cow that is Valentine’s Day. It is the American...
...English,” having just decided to quit her athletics team to allow herself more time to pursue other activities—like drinking at the Owl. You might find a dud, admitted to Harvard because he is an idiot savant of mathematics, who has decided to drop math and take up writing terrible poetry. Or you might find a dud who just wasn’t especially talented to begin with, but somehow looked good “on paper,” or, “on the common application...
...Moreover, it is often a pain to lend to small firms. Their owners show up in bank lobbies with account books that frequently combine grade-school math with Enron-style deceptions, making it nearly impossible to place a value on their operations. Liu Binbin has seen it all as a lending supervisor at the Chengdu City Commercial Bank (C.C.C.B.), one of a hundred or so such banks set up over the past several years across the mainland specifically to lend to small companies. One applicant, the owner of a factory that makes pickled vegetables, visited Binbin's office recently with...