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...take this class, you’ll feel sort of like a president. You can skip the 150+ pages of reading assigned each week and read Porter’s lecture handouts, which bulletpoint his lists. That makes this class easy. One teaching fellow says about 90 percent of students receive As or Bs (an essay question on the 2002 final: Outline three approaches to the study of the presidency...
...prep for IDs, but otherwise some handy SparkNotes will do the trick on the rest of the syllabus. As anyone who’s not a neophyte to the Core, true academic challenge comes only by taking cross-listed departmental courses. Don’t be silly—skip them. But for the intellectually challenging amongst you, English 177, “Art and Thought in the Cold War,” is not to be missed. Renaissance man Louis Menand’s command of the subject matter allows him to skillfully blend the historical and literary disciplines...
...frequency identification, a transmitter smaller than a dime that can be embedded in anything from ID cards to key fobs to hospital bracelets (to safeguard newborns, for instance). Now consider Compliance Control's HyGenius system, which detects restaurant employees' handwashing and soap usage with wireless communication from clothing tags. Skip the soap, and you are in hot water...
Students Who Skip the Ivy League Our story debating the value of an Ivy League education got plenty of mail--not just about East Coast, lite colleges but also about state universities, small private schools, financial aid and consultants for hire. And most readers commented on the pressure of the application process...
...Weekend in October devoted to a massive crew race. 2. When college and prep-school students descend on Cambridge to get drunk. 3. When your roommates will invite total strangers to drink, party, and pass out in your room. 4. A good weekend (October 21-22, this year) to skip town...