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Sports fans like to refer to their teams in the first person. After a big victory, we exclaim, “We destroyed them.” Casual observers may not understand, but it makes sense to us die-hards. Forget even the crowd’s massive impact on...
Fairly regularly, though, I witnessed much less severe heckling that, nonetheless, I still would have preferred been left at home. While this different, more casual brand of heckling may not be quite as politically offensive, it still reflects poorly on a fan and his community. Comments don’t...
“It was an attitude of certain faculty members that Harvard wasn’t a trade school,” Carroll said. “Harvard was for the intellectual elite and studying computers was a trade, not an art or a science.”
Computer science was not formally in the Core curriculum, but according to Konstan, the inclusion of basic programming into the quantitative reasoning courses was a way of saying that Harvard believed every student needed these skills—but without having to create a whole batch of new core courses...
“I don’t know if it was a conscious decision or not, but Harvard trusted its students to an amazing amount of interconnected computing,” Konstan said.