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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...
Professor of Greek and Latin Richard F. Thomas, who seconded Nagy's motion at the Faculty meeting, suggests increasing the minimum placement exam score for passing out of the language requirement...
According to the Handbook for Students, the Harvard language requirement can currently be fulfilled in one of five ways: earning a minimum score of 600 on an appropriate SATII Achievement test; earning a minimum score of three on an appropriate Advanced Placement test; earning a passing score as determined by the department on a placement examination; obtaining a waiver if one's native language is not English and if one is proficient in both that language and English; or passing with a letter grade two half-courses of instruction in one language at Harvard during the first year of residence...
...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...