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Joshua W. Shenk '93 turned his problems with the (admittedly extremely annoying) Harvard end-of-term move out into a lambastation of the tutorial system ("On the Harvard Dole," June...
...pity Shenk. When I confronted an Eliot House tutor with my moving out problem, he offered to let me store my boxes in his basement office...
...Shenk's attack on the tutorial system demonstrates the pathetic misconception so many Harvard undergraduates share. Almost every student I know has complained about the lack of good advising. Yet almost no one ever seeks advice...
...guess what? That's why the tutorial staff exists. It's sad that Shenk has never "engaged with any [tutor] over some intellectual matter" or "received course advice from them" or "had a fresh insight into a tutor's field of study." Did you ever ask? Obviously...
...some of them are the closest friends I have at Harvard. I never would have undertaken an independent study unless a tutor suggested it to me. I would never have read Moby Dick unless a tutor had shown me the importance of its political symbolism. I weep for Shenk. I cannot imagine house life without tutors...