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This summer, I faced the facts. My SE was choking to death with files: Word 5, Pagemaker, SuperPaint, four or five games, a system file stuffed with extra fonts and more utilities than I own pairs of shoes. Even with CompactPro (the small hard drive's friend), I was gasping...
But in terms of advice on good classes, thesis topics and advisers, a concentration plan or anything else I need help with in the academic labyrinth that is Harvard, he might be a nullity.
And the saddest thing is that in my two-and-a-bit years at Harvard, I have never received any advice worth the name. My sense is that the College advising system is based on the premise that people driven enough to get into Harvard probably selected a thesis topic...
Inside knowledge about which classes are good, which classes are lotteried, which professors really care, which seminars will take first-years and people in other concentrations, and which faculty members are potential seminar leaders and thesis advisors are a few ideas. Undergraduates have little institutional memory, and cognizant advisors could...
Who is God? what can we know about God? And if knowing God is possible, how do we comprehend him: by reason or only through an ecstatic epiphany of faith? These questions have tormented theologians and mystics in the 4,000-year history of monotheism. Their wildly varied answers are...