Word: undergrad
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...Mather House representative, faced a competitive race against two other dedicated incumbents; he proved a casualty of the elimination of one seat from each house on the UC. The issues the UC faces this fall encompass the spectrum from academic to social. One issue dear to every Harvard undergrad that the UC will tackle this fall is the Harvard Yale tailgate—an event known for revelry but threatened by harsh alcohol restrictions. Other priorities include curricular reform and student-group financing. —Staff writer Margot E. Edelman can be reached at medelman@fas.harvard.edu...
Around the same time, Wendy Kopp, then an undergrad at Princeton in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, wrote an ambitious senior thesis. She envisioned a Peace Corps of teachers, a highly selective and prestigious program that would place college graduates for two-year stints in under-resourced and under-staffed public schools...
...whatever Harvard students do, they do it intensely. Strangely enough, this even goes for wasting time, as I discovered in an airport security line last May: “The longest I’ve ever slept is about 30 hours,” I heard an obviously exhausted undergrad behind me boast. “But I could probably go longer now.”All talk of going longer aside, I made it my mission after arriving home in August for a month of vacation to test my endurance and skill not only in sleep, but also...
There’s something of a loose community of study participants, as well—if you do enough studies, you start to see the same people over and over. The hot Norwegian undergrad on the 15th floor of William James. The occasional crazy Cantabridgian who you hope you won’t be paired up with. The handful of College students who seem to take all the same tests as you. The occasional Boston University student who comes to Allston for the windfall...
There are lots of reasons to be moral: avoiding prison, hell, and appearances on Gawker.com are just a few. But you’re in luck, oh principle–perplexed undergrad, for Harvard has bestowed its most righteous of all Cores, Moral Reasoning, upon thee. Unfortunately, it’s often righteously boring.In theory, Moral Reasoning courses will help you learn to deal with tough ethical questions, and face up to quandaries that enable you to hone your moral compass. Though the MR menu provides a seemingly gourmet spread of professors, readings, and course titles, reality is often more...