Word: qrr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't a complete computer illiterate. Periodically, someone would force me to learn Basic (remember Basic?) again on the mendacious promise that it would someday prove useful. So I learned it dutifully, going so far as to pass the now-defunct technical portion of the QRR, but I never saw the greater utility of being able to program cascading rows of asterixes down the screen...
Mike Doonesbury said it best: "Ever feel like you were perfectly educated for the Bronze Age?" More than one Harvard senior has looked into the future recently and understood. It does sometimes seem like Harvard gives scant preparation for the Real World. Expos, the Core, the QRR--these have little relevance to your average senior in search of some direction...
...eliminating the Quantitative ReasoningRequirement (QRR) and instead integratingstatistics into class syllabi
...also find four Harvard players. (For all of us QRR incompetents, that's 1/5th, a quarter, 20 percent...
Talked to a first-year lately? You'd be surprised how much happier you'll feel afterwards. They actually like being here. They think college is fun. Sure, getting a job is tough and it would've been nice to pass the QRR the first time around. But look at all the neat things there are to do here. Sure, their courses seem to have a lot of reading and two hour sections, but isn't that what they're at Harvard for? To learn...