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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...
...you’d just like to play around with chemicals ranging from curiously dangerous to don’t-you-dare-drop-that dangerous, button up your lab coat. The course mostly consists of a weekly marathon eight-hour lab. There, graduate student TFs patiently guide clumsy undergrads through the ins and outs of stirring, pouring, clamping, filtering, and cannulating (nothing too raunchy, don’t worry). Having Chem 135 tucked into your academic pocket protector is an indication to most professors that you can handle their lab research—and you can. Between sophomore and junior...
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...