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Besselle is the first person in his family to receive a higher education. He says financial constraints were a primary reason why he opted for a community college rather than a four-year school...
...family while she was in South Africa last summer on the Weissman International Internship Program. Stenson said her new friend brought her to his home, consisting of three thatched-roof huts, in rural Zululand. “I don’t think there was ever a white person who had visited them,” Stenson said. She spent four nights living with his family during which time schoolchildren would stop by on their morning commute to see her and shake her hand, wanting proof that she did in fact exist. Stenson said her senior project, the equivalent...
...take time off from school. Instead, she added weekly chemotherapy infusions to her schedule of thesis writing, job hunting, and extracurricular commitments. She is now in remission. Alford’s cherishes her ability to spur change and influence her peers. “I’m a person who’s always speaking out, always giving my honest opinion—which sometimes gets me into trouble,” Alford says. “That’s who I always want to be: the person at the mic drawing attention to things I think...
...Nicholas T. Brown ’08 what he thinks of all this, he considers himself to be somewhat of an “enigma.” “I was with Natasha Alford,” Brown says, “who is just an incredible person and superstar at Harvard, and she said, ‘I’m really anxious to see what they might write about you. Even though I call you a friend, I don’t really know anything about...
...classes with such complex terminology is truly a testament to how exceptional the services are at Harvard,” said Powers in an e-mailed statement. The greatest challenge for interpreters, according to Kellie L. Stewart, one of Powers’s interpreters, is the pace of the person speaking. Interpreters run into trouble with people who speak softly or very quickly, explained Stewart in an e-mailed statement. In addition to interpreters, some deaf students use a captioning system, in which they can watch the words spoken in class on their laptop. “I was quite...