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...slide memorization exam time. If you’re not one for actually “studying,” do yourself a favor and take this course. Make sure with any course, but especially with Lit B, to shop the courses and really think about whether the very narrow topics offered can hold your attention for an entire semester. Otherwise you may find yourself snoozing through an entire semester of some seriously dull material (“Chinese Imaginary Space,” anyone...
...some students find themselves paralyzed by a lack of departmental structure. Seemingly half the course catalog is up for grabs. Advisors are a little too eager to make you choose your own path, so you may be tempted to just throw darts at the Courses of Instruction rather than narrow it down yourself. Instead, listen to Confi and start with Ryan’s cross-listed class, Comparative Literature 161, “Modernist Movements.” In typical Lit fashion, it serves up an otherwise tired topic with interdisciplinary, multilingual style. Along with the standard Eliot and Pound...
...that different (though Soc Studies doesn’t have Ec’s excuse of being an enormous department). And you won’t get nice receptions in hotels like the History of Science peeps.For all its philosophical ideals (unifying knowledge rather than splitting it into different narrow disciplines), Social Studies could better be known as “you can take any Gov, History, Ec, Soc, or Anthro course.” But that does not mean there aren’t a lot of requirements, which can be exceedingly annoying for people who don?...
...eleven academic areas (Foreign Cultures; History A and B; Literature and Arts A, B and C; Moral Reasoning; Quantitative Reasoning; Social Analysis; and Science A and B). If it worked the way it was intended, the Core could force students to explore academic areas outside their narrow specialization and ensure that no Harvard student graduated without being exposed to a wide range of general topics.Instead, the Core is often seen as seven obligatory piles of specific, useless knowledge to choke down. Far from expanding their academic horizons, many students trudge through the Core by taking whatever fits their schedule, doing...
...Harvard was already a narrow window of opportunity, and for many Currier House residents that window just got a little bit narrower. Some Currier residents returned to learn that their new Harvard-issued mattresses were thicker but also narrower. According to measurements performed by The Crimson, the mattresses are 33.5 inches wide compared to the more typical Harvard mattress which is 35 inches wide. They’re also 2.5 inches deeper. Yard Operations Manager of Administrative Operations Zachary M. Gingo confirmed in an e-mail that the mattresses are 1.5 inches narrower than the old ones...