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...undergraduates to see concentration choice as an integral part of making their four years at Harvard a fulfilling, rich, and productive experience. After all, we hold out the idealistic hope that students will use their undergraduate education to explore new things, to discover their passions, so that they can understand themselves, their world, and their relationship with that world in more profound ways. We want students to discover new passions because doing so is an enriching experience that we return to throughout our lives—whether for solace, intellectual satisfaction, future guidance, or merely to inspire more interesting dinner...
...thought is that advisers and advisees would (in some cases they already do) hold substantive conversations, enabling one another to see things differently: encouraging students to see their time at Harvard more expansively, encouraging advisers to understand the world of our undergraduates in new ways. Harvard is an intimidating place. Large introductory classes set a tone of anonymity and unaccountability...
...understand why, think of an ice cube. It starts out as water, but as it cools below 32F (oC), it undergoes what's called a phase transition--the same stuff assumes a whole different structure. An ice cube doesn't solidify all at once; the freezing starts in several spots, which grow until they meet. Unless the crystals are perfectly aligned, you get a defect--one of those white streaks inside most ice cubes...
...option Cairo has is to look at its history for solutions,” she said. “Some older desert suburbs [such as Heliopolis] were successful. Studying success stories can help planners understand what worked and how to replicate that...
...He’s very bright and motivated, with lots of talent. It’s easy for him to understand the relationships between the technology and human health, and he’s done a good job with the assay he’s developed, which will have a direct application to the field,” Dr. Volkman said...