Word: placement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, as a first-year, I was too lost in the trees of moving suitcases, buying supplies and taking placement tests to see the forest of the only time period of my Harvard career (at least until Senior Week) devoted entirely to students. My days were packed with unpacking. Unloading my bags and retrieving boxes proved to be quite stressful. Getting my new computer from the TPC was a trial by fire while trying to set up my network connection bedeviled even my computer-literate dormmates. Lines at The Coop houseware store were reminiscent of Russian bread queues; the presence...
...placement tests were no breeze either. It didn't feel like I was starting exactly on the right foot when I began taking exams not four days after my arrival in Cambridge. Though I now realize that the majority of them were the only examinations I would take at Harvard that wouldn't really count, they nonetheless felt like AP exams at the time. Yet even around the tests lies an aura of nostalgia. I still remember discussing with a new friend, later to be a Quincy House roommate, several questions from the first QRR test I was to fail...
...another informal, all-first-year dance where I could really let loose in a stress-free, school-free environment; and I will never again see a First-year Union table of entirely new faces with whom I could begin a conversation that would range from college football to language placement and to work-out machines at the still-new-seeming...
Kugel will be succeeded at the career placement office by John H. Noble, formerly the director of Duke's Career Development Center...
...previous year to 101 this spring. Some students attributed this drop-off to the larger blocking groups which have become more common since randomization, which have led to students having more of their friends within their houses. Others speculated randomization had led to student contentment with house placement...