Word: undergradate
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Keith Gessen: As an undergrad, I didn’t entirely like any of the publications at Harvard so I wrote a little bit for FM and the Advocate but I didn’t join any of them. I tried out for the Lampoon and I didn’t get in. I didn’t get a great sense from Harvard about what being a writer would be like. My parents were Russian immigrants so I knew what a Russian writer would be like and how a Russian writer lives, which is sort of like...
...presence. Decades later, the University severed ties with ROTC because of the military’s exclusionary “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. In light of the fact that the military is conspicuously missing from Harvard’s undergrad campus, the armed services are rarely counted among the various niches Harvard graduates fill in the job market. Donald M. Coates ‘07, an NROTC midshipman, says that although some fellow students respond positively when they find out he plans to enter the Navy, others aren?...
...Certainly there will be both,” he said. “Whether or not it will be a separate concentration within the life sciences, we don’t know yet, but undergrad courses will be an important part of what...
Eavesdrop on a tour of Harvard Yard and you might overhear an oddly perky undergrad telling a swarm of tourists that all of the buildings surrounding the Old Yard are freshman dorms—with two-and-a-half exceptions. Come next fall, however, that number may jump to three. The quirky half—better known as Massachusetts Hall—will join University Hall and Harvard Hall and, unfortunately, may cease to house first-year Harvard students. Following last summer’s transfer of control of Mass. Hall from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...award for her teaching. “Leah obviously knows the material really well, and she’s still in college so she also relates to us,” says Michael D. Clarke ’10, one of her current students.“Undergrad TFs are loved by the undergrads,” says Mugane, who attributes much of the program’s success to the popularity of the young TFs he hires. In addition to his own observations, he cites student feedback from weekly online reports.Students also appreciate the ability to practice their language...