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This Monday marked the beginning of the unofficial academic year, as freshmen joined upperclassmen in submitting their finalized study cards. And if you listened closely, you could almost hear the collective sigh of relief from concentration heads, peer advisors, proctors, and the Bureau of Study Counsel. Despite study card day’s apparent finality, though, all undergraduates have five weeks to add or drop courses, one of Harvard’s most under-appreciated policies. Especially when one compares Harvard to most other colleges nationwide, which typically have an add/drop period of two to three weeks?...
...Many fault Gross’ occasionally lackluster leadership for the sluggishness of the Harvard College Curricular Review and for the underwhelming new General Education curriculum that it produced. But his tenure nevertheless produced a stunning renaissance in undergraduate advising, including the first comprehensive, fully-funded peer advising program in the College’s history. The Classes of 2010 and 2011 have Gross to thank for the delay in concentration choice and for the College’s formal recognition of secondary fields...
...Adam Goldenberg ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. He is Chair of the College Events Board and served on the Student Advisory Board to the Advising Programs Office, which designed the Peer Advising Fellows program...
...until the horror stories abate. The issue of on-campus storage is a different story. To begin with, the College does not insure storage like Collegeboxes and makes it clear that students store belongings in Houses entirely at their own risk. Such storage is a luxury; very few peer institutions provide free, on-campus storage, even at colleges where students typically live on campus for four years. It is thus unreasonable for students to expect the College to protect their stored belongings. The storage space is exactly what it is advertised to be: free, voluntary, unsecured storage for the summer...
...campus, their revamped advising system contained hardly a mention of Gen Ed, but many a mention of the Core. “We were taught to act as if there is no such thing as Gen Ed,” says Mohamad M. Ali ’11. Peer Advising Fellows were instructed to advise freshmen to pick classes assuming the current Core curriculum will be in place for the remainder of their time at Harvard, on the hope that their Core classes will be grandfathered into the new program. These sad developments are a stark and disheartening reminder...