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Andrew P. Winerman ’04, a Crimson editor, is an applied math concentrator in Cabot House...
Espy’s wicked smaht. Last spring, he took six courses and managed five in most of the semesters before that. Upon graduating, he will receive two degrees: an A.B. in applied mathematics and a master’s degree in applied math and economics. He also tutors math at the Bureau of Study Counsel and has served as president of the Harvard Investors Club. “He turned it around,” says an anonymous fan. “He knows his shit.” Just last year, Espy campaigned for Undergraduate Council president, running...
...tedious Quantitative Reasoning requirement is about dance. “If that’s boring to me, that’s important,” he says, explaining that weeding out the tedium of QR lends itself to finding the wonder in choreography. In addition to boring math class, Yamaguchi draws on his athletic background in his choreography. “You can tell that his choreography has come out of his wrestling training. It’s like a no fear sort of attitude about dance. It’s cool and refreshing,” says Adrienne...
...conversation, Jarcho moves with ease between her literature tutorial on departures from phallogocentric philosophy and enthusiastic discussions of lingerie and “tortoise-y math rock.” The last came up as a result of Jarcho’s sometime involvement as drummer, singer and songwriter in a band called Ensimismada, which played famed New York venues like CBGB and the Mercury Lounge. Jarcho translates the band’s Spanish name as “self-involved or lost in thought,” something she says applies to herself...
More from the quirkiness department: Rick Du Puy, described by some as an old-fashioned polymath for his concurrent interests in math, music theory and philosophy, betrayed the extent of his nostalgia for days past by ordering a tall glass of milk. Krish Subrahmanian, the Class of 2003’s first class marshal, also displayed self-assured innocence in his drink selection when he requested a Shirley Temple to the jaw-dropped surprise of the waitress. As she continued down the length of the table, though, she was soon fighting back an onslaught of drink pleas...