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When Sarah I. Meyers '02 arrived at Harvard this fall, she planned to concentrate in philosophy or music. But she was also wanted to study math, so first semester she enrolled in Mathematics 21a, "Multivariable Calculus...
...began taking it as an elective, because I remembered how much I enjoyed [math] in high school," she says. "I just wanted to check...
...Lower levels [in the Math Department] are not taught for pleasure or fun, but as a function to get from point A to point B," she says. "I felt like everyone teaching the course and everyone taking it used it to get to the next math course or physics course or to fulfill the next requirement, not because math was fun or interesting...
Students considering a concentration in math or science, or those just interested in taking a few classes within those departments, often perceive intro-level classes as frustrating, intimidating or disorganized...
...class made me feel there was no way I could do math at Harvard unless I threw myself into it," Meyers says. "I'm definitely going to miss it, but I don't see doing it as possible. It just wasn...