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...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...
...probably need all the help you can get, at first anyway. Along with its “light” course load, Philosophy is famous for Professor Alison Simmons (who is very active in the ongoing curricular review and is the department’s Head Tutor) and her accessible but difficult Phil 8 class, “Introduction to the History of Early Modern Philosophy.” It’s the kind of class that people say is both the best and hardest they’ve taken at Harvard. Matthew Boyle offers a less daunting...
...your best friend was elected homecoming king while his sister started freebasing at age 11? Psychology 1603, “Adolescent Behavior,” a survey of adolescent development from the ideal to the freaky just might have the answer. Professor Debbie Sorenson, a Lowell House residential tutor, seems barely older than a teen herself, and her lectures are light-hearted and enjoyable, especially since she incorporates a course-related clip from favorite teeny-bopper flicks into most. Even if she doesn't inspire you, guest speakers and panels (the hidden jewels of Psych 1603) spice up lecture, despite...
...Human Sexuality,” must be the only class where a TF could start off her first section by asking, "So, who had sex last night?" and actually get a show of hands. (Nevermind, this is Harvard. Who are we kidding?) Formerly taught by Adams House Senior Tutor Michael Rodriguez, the class purports to cover everything from anatomy to politics. So, you might you might have to suffer those discussions about gender as a social construction and whether porn contributes to rape. But you'll also get to study stuff like the stages of female arousal—whoever...