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...better. Indeed, for four years, we are all caught up in something momentous, even if that something becomes a little mundane after we've been here for a while. For me, at least, at the end of it all, having had a few extra months to look back and reflect, I feel a sense of wonder at having been here, and when I think back upon the past four years, I am filled with an overwhelming sense of gratitude for how lucky I am to have called this place home...
Perhaps the Charles does, after all, reflect our thoughts. For us, winter exam period is often the bleakest of times. The steady stream of papers and exams, like a thick snowstorm, chills our souls and buries our wills. In the end we, like the river, can do nothing but wait meekly for the sun to break...
...Undergraduate Council elections are long over, and the new leadership is already in place. Nevertheless, we'd like to take a moment to reflect on last December's election process. The council's election commission should be lauded for their role in running a clean and fair election. Now is the time for the council to move forward to making sure that, within this stable framework, future elections can energize the campus electorate. This can be achieved by reforming the election rules in a few small ways...
...room atop Lowell House, studying for exams, I take time off to reflect on the generalities and fragments of my educational experience. Reading through my notes--often hasty and incomplete scrawls--I can nonetheless close my eyes and immediately see the attendant lecture on the blackboard before...
...very idea of erecting an erasable surface for the explanation of concepts goes far beyond aesthetics. Its dual names--blackboard, chalkboard--reflect a changing emphasis on the surface and the tool of writing. From its size and placement, its inherent economy of scale, we intuit a notion of ideal class size: fifteen students can be taught as easily as one, but double or triple this and the precision of chalk-shapes becomes difficult to read...