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...seem like a combination of Positive Psych section and a “How to Live Your Best Life” Oprah 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...
...lottery for this class is handled could also make you want to throw up. Porter and Head TF Carlos Diaz both hail from Dunster House (Porter is the housemaster and Diaz is the acting senior tutor). Students they know are almost guaranteed to get a spot...
...Hayden White before you pack your bags for Thanksgiving. If you don’t find epistemology intriguing by then, you should probably pack your bags for the English department, too. Junior year heralds the celebrated one-on-one junior tutorial. It’s essential to select a tutor whose interests and personality complement your own, so interviewing candidates is a must (feels good to interview, and reject, the jerk who put your sophomore paper up for review). If you pick correctly, you’ll land a tutor who will invite you up to her flat and stuff...
...personal choice I made to live a jam-packed life has ultimately been fulfilling.Nevertheless, I haven’t been able to ignore the message that Lewis, some professors, and even peers have spent years trying to impress upon me. Last week, a casual breakfast with a resident tutor turned into an unofficial advising session. I mentioned I was shying away from writing a thesis due to a heavy load of extracurriculars, courses, a fall internship, and job searching. “I need to slow down,” I told him. Though disappointed to be abandoning a project...
...Israel and the U.S. on behalf of the whole region. The movement gained a kind of pan-Arab hero status in 2000, when Israel quit Lebanon and Hizballah was acclaimed as the only Arab army ever to have forced an Israeli retreat. It had become a role model and tutor to Palestinian radical groups such as Hamas, which sought to emulate not only Hizballah's art of combining welfare work, politics and military activities, but also its principle of using violence to extract concessions from Israel. In fact, the Hamas militants that seized Corporal Gilad Shalit at Kerem Shalom...