Word: registrars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your packet," and we continued in this kindergarten manner for a while before he decided to check some list. (I heard paper rustling.) My name was on the list, he announced smugly. Therefore I had received it. I asked if it were possible that the omnipotent Registrar's Office, long may it spew red tape, had actually made a mistake? (That's not exactly what I said, but I wish I had.) He then retreated to his second line of defense. It didn't matter anyway since it was my responsibility to find out these things, not the responsibility...
...true. The Handbook for Students does indeed put the onus on the students. (You just knew there was fine print involved somewhere, didn't you?) I was not however, "the only person out of 170" to "miss" the make-up information, as the man from the Registrar's Office claimed. I found out later that several other people were similarly screwed...
...honest, 10 days later, my outrage has faded somewhat. I studied for 20 hours straight and took the exam. I may even have done well. Ten days later, it's just one more story to tell about the Registrar's Office. It has, however, made me consider earlier than I normally do the awkward, Byzantine way that Harvard examinations are held...
This proposal--and others like it--typically sends the Registrar's Office (understandably stressed around finals period anyway) into hysterics. They warn of the extra staff who would be needed to keep track of all these exams and the potential chaos at the end of finals period when some instructors might have to grade 100 exams in two days...
...also worth noting that none of this need start on a grand scale. The Registrar's Officer often complains that people underestimate the amount of work such a change would take. Begin experimenting and prove that charge true or false. In all of Harvard there must surely be three instructors willing to try something...