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...answers questions and waits good-naturedly for a photographer to set up his equipment. There is no military paraphernalia cluttering his home, which is filled instead with family pictures, knickknacks, and souvenirs from his wife Marisol's sorority days. His 4-year-old daughter is just up from her nap, and he kisses her forehead. He allows Marisol, who is expecting their third child in January, to finish his sentences...
...students’ larger intellectual gripes about Harvard: the class covers too much, too hastily and too broadly. The lecturing is split up between three professors who vary in quality, and students complain that by the end of the semester, 10a is a better venue to grab a power-nap (undisturbed) than to peruse Western history. The sourcebook was too often lauded as something more “exciting” than the lectures. Coming after 10a, History 10b is more like a dessert than a hangover, whipping through modernity as fast as 10a covered the old stuff, but with...
...scribbling out equations on their so-called “midterms” that occur on a weekly basis, you’ll be relaxing quietly in a dark lecture hall looking at pictures. Maybe you can even sit in the back and take a midday nap. It’s like preschool all over again. You’ll spend much of your time at the Sackler and Fogg museums, which is great, because some serious learning gets done there. Enjoy exploring undiscovered pathways like the gruleings four-floor climb to your section in the Fogg. Feel proud...
...concentrators a bit too well. On a nice day and with enough whining, most professors and TFs can be persuaded to hold class outside WJH in the courtyard. Between classes, students often take advantage of the cafeteria on the second floor, the comfortable library couches for a nap, or the chance to guinea pig themselves in psych experiments for petty cash. Most of the professors have been around the department for quite a while and will act like over-excited puppies if you show up at their office hours. Professor Peter V. Marsden, who teaches the required statistics...
...write something - anything - on a piece of paper," he once said. (According to legend, when the Swedish ambassador paid him a call to inform him that he'd been awarded the Nobel, Mahfouz's wife refused to disturb him: he was taking his regular nap...