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...does not like math. Not science, either, though she’s good at both. Economics is boring, and keeping quiet is overrated. “When I was younger, I was the fuckup. I did my schoolwork, but I played a lot. I wasn’t as studious as every other Asian kid. Like, there’s a lot of shy Asian girls, but I’m not them,” Zhang says, fashionably groomed in a cable-knit sweater and tweed shorts. “When I was applying to college, everybody expected...
...that’s awkward,” Cole said, noting that Lamont lacks the type of entertainment options that usually characterize a student center. “But I think people make of Lamont what they need to,” she added. Though the studious may now have an excuse to never leave the library, Beth S. Brainard, director of communications for the Harvard College Library, did not hesitate when asked about the possibility of the ultimate in late-night Lamont luxury—cots. “Comfy chairs are about as far as I think we?...
...here to work, and your business here is learning.” It was with these words that outgoing Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby welcomed us, as freshmen, into Harvard’s folds. This ethic of productive and studious endeavor has been translated and conveyed to us as a mission: we are here to be educated as “citizens of the world,” to use a phrase often used by our (also outgoing) University president. Ostensibly, this goal of fostering global responsibility informs the structure of Harvard’s curriculum, the breadth...
...Cline hopes the Lamont Café, set to open in September, will attract and isolate these incidents, leaving the rest of the libary to more studious individuals...
...place of study. The signs were apparent from the beginning. As the clock struck midnight on October 18, 1,500 undergraduates congregated in euphoric glee to celebrate Lamont’s extended hours. A chorus of cheers filled the cramped foyer as burritos flew through the air and starved, studious students leaped for the free Felipe’s. “Party in Lamont,” as the Undergraduate Council labeled the event, was designed as a once-in-a-lifetime event: a suspension of the library’s normally staid atmosphere in honor of students?...