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...rather have an explicit tutorial relationship than call it office hours,” he says. “You really end up with a situation where you practically have to hide or wear a false beard...once they’ve all had a midterm graded they all want to know why they didn?...
...Well, Dartboard’s sorry; she just couldn’t possibly study for her Bio midterm without some comfort food in front of her. Call it what you will, but a pack of gummy bears, some chocolate chip cookies and a bottle of coke never did a student harm when cramming long hours at a time...
Unfortunately, I woke up at 1:02 p.m.—I had slept through my entire first midterm at Harvard. Initially, I blamed everything from my new alarm clock to my roommate to my course selection—how could I have thought I could handle Justice and Alexander in the same semester? Finally I blamed myself. I couldn’t expect to leave both assignments to the last minute and still get them done...
Even with only a few weeks left before commencement, I have trouble admitting that some Harvard opportunities are still out of reach. But the same way that I couldn’t expect to leave both my Justice paper and Alexander midterm to the last minute, college for me could not be both Animal House and Dean’s list. It is certainly bittersweet to realize that for everything I’ve done, there are things I couldn’t do, but it is the lesson that the core taught me in October of freshman year...
...school. Since then, things have, quite frankly, fallen apart. Taking an ambitious course load (five required courses, including three science classes, two of which were graduate-level chemistry courses), I was compelled to drop one of my concentration courses on the last possible day, March 8, after taking the midterm for that course that very afternoon. And yet it was somehow unsurprising, as I had not yet taken the course’s strict prerequisite and found myself overcommitted to extracurricular pursuits (namely, four Ghungroo performances from March 4-6). But here’s the bottom line: although...