Word: transfering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps the Administration does not want to baby students who have already been in college for a year or two. If that is the case, the sentiment is appreciated, but judging from my experience here, it seems that laziness is the explanation for the ridiculous lack of concern for transfer students...
Arriving at Harvard, I moved into a room in Adams House with two other transfer students, who were just as bewildered as I was. Supposedly, we were going to learn all that we needed to know the next day at a meeting in the Science Center. But questions like, where the heck is the Science Center? were the first ones we needed answered, as we were not given maps. Even the John F. Kennedy School of Government gives maps to the students in its National Security Program. If future CIA agents and officials at NASA need maps, don't sophomores...
...Science Center, Former Dean of Transfer Students Elizabeth Doherty introduced us to the student in charge of the transfer orientation program, Transfer Links. She explained that we might run into some confusion, however, because the student leader had only accepted the position one week before school started...
When I tried at the end of my first year to become a volunteer for Transfer Links, I had to call several different people just to find out how to join. I found out later that it is the coordinator's job to contact volunteers, but the University had not found a coordinator...
...Since Transfer Links is run completely by students, there are a number of problems with it. First, there is no continuity from one year to the next. No one in the Administration has ever made up a list of things that must be done every year. Each fall, Transfer Links must start from scratch...