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...concentration composes 50 percent and "the other 25 percent is purely for electives. You can take anything you want." Let's see here. 25 percent of 32 is eight. Eight minus Expos is seven. Seven minus the Language Requirement is five. And for the unfortunate few who fail the QRR and take Expos 10, five minus two is three. Three divided by 32 is 9.4 percent...
...QRR is a "simple math reasoning test...
...somewhat skeptical of the idea that we are "learning how to learn," a theory that career advisers and Harvard bureaucrats like to use. If this is true, then we would hardly need the Core curriculum or the QRR since every class would impart the same fundamental knowledge. But if we are not going to use what we learn, and we are not learning to learn, then ultimately we must be buying the name for our future...
Harvard students are expected to attend class, do problem sets, write papers and even pass the QRR. Every student obediently fulfills these responsibilities, yet Harvard still does not trust students to swipe their own cards through those little machines in the dining halls...
...would a simple count cause so much controversy? It all stems from statistical sampling, the basis of the new method of census taking. Of course, statistical sampling does not sound that new to anyone who has had to sit through the QRR exam. For those of you who may have forgotten, through statistical sampling, census takers would directly count 90 percent of households and then extrapolate that data to look at the non-responders. As a result, the country could potentially save $900 million...