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...Harvard campus welcomes an influx of newly admitted students for Pre-Frosh weekend, many high school seniors will probably be wondering how to balance their interests and manage their time in college. These students should take a lesson from freshman middle blocker Paul Glootz...
...announcement passed fairly quietly a few weeks ago: Next spring, students will be asked to pre-register for courses months before classes begin. Their selections will remain non-binding, but they will give the College a clearer sense of who will take what class going into shopping week...
...enrollment, leading to a complex room reshuffle during the first week. In addition, many classes must scramble to find extra Teaching Fellows, a slow process that can delay sectioning and the syllabus. These TFs are also frequently underqualified, drawn from a subdiscipline barely relevant to the class. The current pre-registration plan hopes to cut down on this initial chaos—which cost Harvard one million dollars last year—but eliminating shopping would end it definitively...
...Pre-registration would also eliminate the need for the lotteries that constantly shatter students’ plans the day before study cards are due. Under pre-registration, gone would be the pressure of unearthing a fourth class at the 11th hour. Personally, I find this the most compelling argument against shopping: For me, the most stressful week of the year isn’t reading period, and it’s not exam period; it’s shopping period. In course selection as in life, ignorance of what’s ahead is far scarier than even the most...
...performed the well-known Crookers Remix of the song, which perfectly reproduced the ample dance beats of the original, and little else. Other than a few shout-outs to his first album, the majority of Cudi’s set consisted of underground songs that he cited from his pre-fame mix-tapes. And while these tracks deserve merit, they were not what the audience had been waiting for. It must be said that in general, Kid Cudi does not have an extensive repertoire to speak of; his hit-list is easily exhausted. However, his biggest songs were rationed...