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...identifying along the way the easiest guts, the worst professors, and the best academic experiences. So basically: read The Confi Guide and you’ll get laid! Just kidding. But we may help you choose your courses or pick a concentration. Or at the very least, before you throw us away, check out the picture of Nelson Mandela shaking Barney’s hand on page 10. We think it’s kinda funny. * This write-up is based on a response rate of less than 70 percent...
...History and minored in Lit.At least while you’re at Harvard you’ll be a hotshot, though—the department is all about academia, meaning that your professors will take you and any harebrained idea you have seriously. They’ll also throw their backs out to help you win money for research, recognize you for your accomplishments, and pull you out of Widener’s gutter when you become overwhelmed (you will). But Hist and Lit giveth and it taketh: jettisoning schoolwork for extracurricular commitments or a hot date will fly about...
...careful what you wish for–some students find themselves paralyzed by a lack of departmental structure. Seemingly half the course catalog is up for grabs. Advisors are a little too eager to make you choose your own path, so you may be tempted to just throw darts at the Courses of Instruction rather than narrow it down yourself. Instead, listen to Confi and start with Ryan’s cross-listed class, Comparative Literature 161, “Modernist Movements.” In typical Lit fashion, it serves up an otherwise tired topic with interdisciplinary, multilingual style...
...little scared of them. Abandoning your sexuality at the door of the science center and developing a tolerance for inordinate amusement at phrases, such as “arbitrarily small balls,” usually does the trick. Ultimately, after battling the demons of Galois theory all night, you throw on a sweatshirt and head to class, and recognize the same post-all-nighter glassy eyes and shaking hands of the kid sitting next to you. Welcome to Mathematics...
...Harvard fashion—is a motley assortment of young and old minds passionately interested in what they do and, perhaps, a little out of step with the rest of the university. Even basic intellectual expression in the Philosophy department offers unique challenges. (Sometimes it can be tempting to throw your copy of Descartes’ “Meditations” into Mass. Ave. traffic.) Instead of running your own interpretation of the readings through your TF’s critical analysis filter (par for the course in other humanities areas, especially English), philosophy papers introduce the rudiments...