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...room in economics. Artsy-types-looking-for-interesting-ways-to-fulfill-a-Core: Stay away, for your own good.Chemistry concentrators run the gamut from future Ph.Ds to future investment bankers to future tree huggers.Once you’ve hurdled the initial requirements—intro chem, intro bio, intro math, intro physics, intro blah blah boring Science Center lecture course blah blah, and, finally, organic chemistry—you can meet the concentration requirements with as few as four more courses, leaving you plenty of electives.The first two years are usually spent getting “gen chem?...
...this small concentration a home, of sorts. ESPP comes with a hefty workload—17 courses, including a thesis, if you’re an honors concentrator, and a full 16 for non-honors students. Requirements are spread over a variety of subjects, including politics, economics, chemistry, and math. Since ESPP is relatively new, it has only a few actual concentration courses. All concentrators are required to take ESPP10, “Introduction to Environmental Science and Public Policy,” which features rotating lecturers and case study approaches to five large environmental problems. Some students enjoy...
...fellow Harvard students en route to becoming the self-possessed, articulate Harvard graduate, able to rattle off the names of African heads of state as quickly as she runs through the proof that the trisection of an angle is inconstructible. Yeah, that’s right, the hypothetical math concentrator is a female—eat that, Larry Summers.For those precious few among us who value beauty and youth, professor Caroline Elkins and her course, Historical Study A-21 “Africa and Africans,” offer a satisfying dose of both. Students describe the Pulitzer-prize-possessing...
Choosing to study math is not unlike joining the CIA. You will be completely unable to discuss your work with any outsiders, even your closest friends and family. You’ll be assigned seemingly impossible missions (code named “problem sets”). And you will struggle in solitude or with a small band of comrades until you complete your mission. Suffer an ignominious defeat, and transfer to Computer Science. On a more physical plane, the Math department occupies some prime real estate. Its lounge opens onto a balcony above the science center’s front...
Quantitative Reasoning. Some say it’s the Harvard humanities student’s biggest nightmare. Those people are absolutely right. Any real math class—Math 1a, Math 1b, etc., etc.—satisfies the requirement; of course, any class with that many pre-meds is also bound to send any decent humanities student straight to the shrink.That’s where Quantitative Reasoning comes in with some watered down math classes and a cushy core title. They throw “Reasoning” into the title to make the requirement sound less daunting...