Word: pre-frosh
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What of a college-wide initiative for lower grades? If you thought financial aid, large classes and shoddy advising were driving pre-frosh away, wait 'til Harvard is known as the cruelest place in the Ivy League. And besides, with the pressures students place on graders to give high marks and the grading expectations inculcated in high schools everywhere, such an initiative would be doomed to failure...
...course sections, in group tutorials, in restaurants, in dining halls, in lines for washing machines, in the audiences at concerts and at other events. We remember them as "The Girl Who Always Wears My Purple Shirt" or "Fifth-Floor Lamont Guy" or "Laundry-Basket Boy" or "Pre-Frosh." We might even remember when we first saw them. They are the people who shopped that seminar with us last semester but didn't take it, the people who waited in line with us for an interview but didn't get the job, the people who auditioned with us for a play...
...friendships unstruck. They are the could-have-beens of our college careers. Maybe someday one of them will discover a cure for some disease, and then people will say to us, "Laundry-Basket Boy just rid the world of multiple sclerosis. Weren't you in college together?" Or maybe Pre-Frosh could have been a great friend of ours. We'll never know. What's embarrassing is not that we aren't part of their lives, but rather that they aren't part of ours. We see them everywhere and have never bothered to talk to them...
...Many pre-frosh hosts will have negative responses to these questions. Excluding workloads and the weather, there is perhaps no more popular topic about which Harvard students complain than class size and professors. Amidst the grumbling, only infrequently does anyone note that these so-called problems are much more a function of student, not Faculty, behavior...
Natane A. Singleton '01 visited The Coop during pre-frosh weekend and said the renovations were an improvement...