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...hopefully look a little like Dan Vasella. That’s a tall order.” Harvard is not the first school to allow students to pursue an accelerated MD/MBA track. The website of the Association of American Medical Colleges lists 47 other universities that provide the joint option, including Tufts, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale. The MD/MBA track comes as Harvard expands its joint degree options. The Law School announced last year that it had established a joint JD-Ph.D track in economics, government, and health policy—building upon its already-existing joint-degree...
...theater receiver. I plugged in my DVD player and cable box; there's room for three digital audio inputs and two stereo analog inputs, like a CD player or iPod. Then I connected the included microphone, placed it on a cardboard tripod on my couch, and selected the menu option called "Auto Setup". After a few minutes of blips and whooshes, the system had aligned itself around the microphone, which had been standing in for me and my ears...
...effective of Dingman’s proposals is to clarify the rules for freshman parties: they’re allowed. Merely reminding freshmen that they’re permitted to have their own get-togethers will likely encourage such gatherings; no longer will freshmen feel that their only social option at 11 p.m. on a Saturday night is to jump on the Quad shuttle and hope for the best. Of course, the FDO, in accordance with Massachusetts law, hasn’t changed its rule about alcohol in the freshman dorms, but we find it likely that responsible, discreet freshmen...
...semester, it was too much to handle. “I was sitting in the library reading poetry, and I decided, ‘I really, really, don’t want to be here.’” Her freshman dean suggested time off was an option. “The feeling I got from her was, I could, I should really come back at a time when I could enjoy it and not slave at my work,’” she says...
Although his time off and what led up to it was not easy, Eric is grateful that he had the chance to step back, and is convinced that it significantly changed his life for the better. “I’m glad for that option, as opposed to them just kicking me to the curb. From my own standpoint it is good...