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...segment. But for students looking for understanding adults and a mix of undergraduates and grad students to talk to, the BSC can feel homey. Students needing a tutor can get one through the BSC, but with a $4/hr. fee, they might be better off going more frequently to their TFs (free) office hours instead. Otherwise, tutors are generally pretty helpful, though it can be uncomfortable for one Harvard student to go to another for help. Workshops offered by the BSC cover the gamut, from the academically-oriented “Making the Best Use of Reading Period?...
Problem sets are pretty close in difficulty to exam questions, as long as you actually try to figure them out yourself and don't rely on your TFs or smart friends to work through them with you. Ha Yan Lee is a Diet Coke-addicted, candy-throwing, funny and frighteningly well-prepared TF whose review and problem set help sessions are always crowded...
...students and is not afraid to crack a joke or two in class. Shleifer, in stark contrast, comes off as much more dry and less approachable. This distinction comes from his frank and unaffected demeanor in lecture and the boring course material doesn’t help. Unfortunately, the TFs for this class vary in quality as widely as Michael Jackson does in appearance. Most recently, the class was TF’d by two highly unintelligible economics graduate students. As a result, sections became the place to go if you wanted to become more confused about the material. Problem...
...writing, draft, and final paper cycle may make the class one of your most time-consuming. For reasons now lost to antiquity, you refer to your Expos section leader as a “preceptor.” Your preceptor occupies a rung on the staff ladder somewhere above TFs. They are the nomads of the academy. It is considered rude to ask them about their tenure status. The number of A-range grades is rumored to be capped across sections, so competition for grades can be intense. That said, grading is sometimes arbitrary, and naturally some preceptors are more...
...care to know) about Chinese culture is kung fu—Wang is a recovering Bruce Lee fan and the course is basically tailored for beginners. Don’t bother attending the screenings—you can just as easily check them out on reserve. The Chinese-accented TFs were considered incomprehensible by some, but most people find that showing up for section was the most strenuous effort required.If you’d rather eat food from the People’s Republic than learn about its culture, don’t fret. Foreign Cultures spans several continents, with...