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...Moreover, Harvard really did the transfer process right—something of which no student at the college will soon have any recollection. Our orientation, which was longer than freshman orientation, was led exclusively—save for two mandatory meetings—by students who had transferred in previous semesters. The required meetings were not “Sex Signals” or anything of the like but simply relayed to us academic-related information that we needed to know. The rest of the week consisted of optional social events and meals. In turn, this set-up placed very...
...friend of mine who transferred to Yale as a sophomore was assigned to live in Old Campus, the equivalent of a second-year student here living in the Yard. At another school where I was accepted as a transfer student, all the literature I received welcomed me to the class of 2010—the freshman class that year, not the class I would actually be entering. Harvard treated its transfers both as transfers and as students older than freshmen. At the champagne brunch in Annenberg earlier this spring, acquaintances and casual friends asked what freshman entryway I had lived...
...fellow transfer students are some of the happiest people I know here, with an outside point of view and basis for comparison that allow for a heightened appreciation of all that Harvard has to offer. The student body as a whole benefits from this diversity of perspective that transfers bring in and suffers without it. Harvard must be able to admit that mistakes can be made: A student could have made a mistake not applying to or not choosing Harvard the first time around, and the admissions office could have made a mistake in not accepting a student the first...
...four years I’ve been at Harvard, the Student Labor Action Movement has been one of the least popular groups on campus. To be sure, the group is dedicated to an admirable goal—higher wages for Harvard’s lowest-paid employees. But the dogmatism with which SLAM activists put forward their arguments has turned off many lefties who would otherwise be sympathetic to their cause. After all, SLAM has managed to alienate me, and I spent last summer working at a labor law firm whose head partner supports repealing the Reagan tax cuts...
...There was almost no debate, for example about who Lawrence H. Summer’s replacement as university president should have been, despite the fact that virtually all of the candidates were publicly known and had been profiled extensively in the media. No student, professor, or campus organization I know of openly supported a particular candidate, even though many had private opinions they would readily share. (I was barred from expressing my opinion as a reporter covering the search, so I will do so now: I favored Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan or Howard Hughes Medical Institute chief Thomas...