Word: profs
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...advisor, Gregg Tucci, can help you match your interests to a professor, but do your own research, too. Make sure you talk to other undergrads or grad students in the lab try to get a sense of what the work atmosphere is like, because some labs—particularly Prof. David A. Evans’—are known to be particularly competitive once you’re there. Don’t be afraid to jump ship from a lab before the end of add-drop period if things don’t look peachy. Thesis-ing isn?...
...something more “exciting” than the lectures. Coming after 10a, History 10b is more like a dessert than a hangover, whipping through modernity as fast as 10a covered the old stuff, but with more dexterity. Helped in the spring 2006 semester by eye-candy prof Niall Ferguson, 10b lectures were extremely well-attended and captivating. Ferguson is blessed not only with a superb knowledge of European history, but is capable of communicating them gracefully, ending class exactly one hour after it begins, and making every one in the class either want to be him or want...
Grade Inflation: 1. The supposed across-the-board raising of grades to undeserved levels by Harvard professors. 2. The sworn enemy of Prof. Harvey “C-” Mansfield...
...Nickname of a core course, “The Evolution of Human Nature”—formerly a gut—taught by Prof. Marc Hauser and and Prof. Richard Wrangham. 2. Something you will have a lot of at Harvard, with very attractive people. For real, I swear. 3. Not a determinant of scientific intelligence. 4. Intercourse (only at Harvard is this...
Unlike his students, I grew up knowing him simply as “Mo,” not Prof. Fiorina. In my mind he was (and still is) a wine aficionado before an academic. He may argue otherwise, but I don’t think he’d care too much. He’s too affable and fun to argue those kinds of semantics...