Word: maths
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...sciences to select from courses that “do not strive to train students to become future scientists or to enable students to take more advanced science classes” simply to get a “real world connection” is patronizing. Similarly, a Math 55 alum required to take statistics so they can see “real world applications” will likely fall asleep. The Faculty should trust ambitious students who wish to take difficult and comprehensive departmental courses to make real-world connections for themselves, as long as the courses...
...senator from New York, named the most pressing problems facing the middle class today. The book, published in January, outlines 11 “concrete goals,” each of which is aimed at either increasing or reducing a statistic by 50 percent, such as raising reading and math scores by half, or decreasing dependence on foreign oil. To accomplish such goals, Schumer suggested creating an “opt-in” program for public schools and an apolitical committee of experts to devise a long-term strategy for alternative energy. Schumer invents the fictional characters...
...event in a deliberative process a lot more like evaluating a doctoral thesis than watching a DVD of Little Miss Sunshine. And in fact, everyone at the ceremony had reason to be happy, be they a winner, a member of the Academy, or a date willing to laugh at math jokes for an excuse to get dressed up and eat filet mignon...
...poetry or studying poetry or writing poetry,” she says. Boudreau, who is writing a collection of poetry for her senior thesis, is no stranger to the more formal and technical aspects of poetry composition. Yet, she says she is especially happy when a physics or math concentrator, who may not completely understand the difference between an iamb and a dactyl, gets the courage to perform an original poem in front of an audience. “A lot of the poems, people will come up to the mike and say, ‘I just wrote this...
...Mansfield ’53 in disguise. 14) Two weeks into Drew Gilpin Faust’s history seminar, Dean Faust is made the 28th President of Harvard and expels you just to prove she can. 15) What you thought was a foreign language class is, in fact, Math...