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Given the recent instances of outsiders sneaking into Harvard houses, I can understand this particular student??s concern and her decision to call the police on me. I have to admit, though, that I am still a little confused why I was mistaken for a creeper. I just figured that normally people are not suspicious of a college-aged kid entering a dorm at 1 p.m. on a school day, wearing a “Harvard ‘08” sweatshirt and carrying a book about deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs...
...answer the important question of whether or not students’ writing actually improves during their time at Harvard. Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors who sign up for the study online will receive $50 for writing a 90-minute essay and filling out a brief self-evaluation questionnaire. Each student??s writing sample will then be compared to his or her Expository Writing placement test—the one that all students take at the beginning of freshman year. This design will also allow the the test to illuminate exactly the areas of writing instruction in which Harvard lags...
...blood alcohol level of 0.1 percent,” said the Medical School’s Baldino Professor of Sleep Medicine, Charles A. Czeisler. But sleeping regular hours isn’t enough to make up for a lack of sleep, the panel said in response to a student??s question about training the body to sleep less. Just as the body cannot be trained to flourish on 800 calories a day, people cannot teach themselves to function well on just five hours of rest, said Stickgold. Nor did he condone “sleep bulimia...
...diplomas for a vastly larger population. Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 recently proposed such an increase here, and we join him in his call for a better education for all Bay State teens. Although many upper high-school courses may not be relevant to a student??s plans in the here-and-now, they still contribute to his or her personal growth. A 16-year-old high-school dropout may already have the skills for a job, but his or her worldview and even capacity as an American citizen would be severely limited without...
...this as the thesis is...not supposed to impact your other three classes. But I feel like that’s sort of an inflexible way of looking at it,” she said. But some professors do not offer alternative options to thesis writers. Despite his student??s Arthurian approach, Simpson declined to make special arrangements for her or for other thesis writers in the class. He defended his decision in an e-mail, writing, “I strenuously resisted making a special exam for thesis writers: this is an exercise in time management, with...