Word: undergrad
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...junior high teacher of mine who went to Harvard as an undergrad told me that Freshman Week was probably the best time he ever had at college. “You get the whole campus to yourselves,” he told me two years ago; “you have free run of the place.” When the upperclassmen show up, you suddenly become a lowly first-year...
...healthiest way to deal with most major transitions, though, is acceptance, and that’s exactly how I’m approaching my temporary shift from mild-mannered undergrad to bedding-retail superhero. The chain store in question has a Boston-area outlet, which I plan to visit come September. I might even take along my nametag and surreptitiously assist a few customers, if only for the sheer novelty of it all. And if you ask me to pretend to sell you sheets, I’ll certainly oblige. I hear it’s a great...
Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles is itching to hire, and he hasn’t been shy about saying so. Our student to faculty ratio hovers at 8:1 (compared to 6:1 at supposedly undergrad-friendly Princeton). Any major new curricular shift, like Knowles’ attempt to create a sweeping new freshman seminar program that would include all first-years, would require more professors than we?...
...White House and Yale had hoped to keep the visit a secret as long as possible; the President has carried "a chip on his shoulder about Yale," according to Roland Betts, a close friend and member of the Yale Corporation. Bush, seen below as an undergrad, loathed the "intellectual arrogance" he encountered there, he once told TIME. And he resented that Yale didn't give his father (class of '48) an honorary degree until 1991. But now that W is President--and daughter Barbara is a freshman--it seems he is ready to make peace with Yale. And share...
...audience was also educated throughout the performance. Los Hombres Calientes took the audience on a rhythmic tour of North, South and Central America. As a Harvard undergrad in attendance said after the concert, “It’s amazing that six people can create so much music.” Perhaps that’s one more lesson Los Hombres Calientes wanted to get through to their fans...