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...During my freshman year, I took an upper-level philosophy class on existentialism. Since then, I have tried to live my life in accordance with Nietzsche’s principle of eternal recurrence: Live life such that you would want to live each moment over again, every detail the same. But I have come to discover that this philosophy is incomplete. Life is about more than simply living with no regrets. It is about learning from the regrets that you do have and realizing which moments are the ones you should cherish...
Pilots flying for airlines in foreign markets say they are treated like upper-level managers, with something they feel they no longer get in the U.S.: respect. China and India are signing up pilots with two-to-five-year contracts and giving them the chance to move around the world without having to start at the bottom and advance--something stifled by the seniority system in the U.S. "It's an amazing opportunity," says Murray...
...main reason is that the class no longer counts as a concentration requirement for psychology and it did count last time. So the largest decrease in numbers is psychology majors, and the reason is because of an internal structure within the department where there are more perquisites for taking upper-level classes, which this one is. The other reason is the regular ups and downs, you know, each year there are more or less students in different classes, so I don’t think I can attribute it to anything beyond that.5.FM: Still, a class with over 500 students...
Similarly, faculty will benefit from the heightened challenge and stimulation that teaching advanced students presents. The possibility of teaching upper-level, specialized courses and working alongside committed, sophisticated students is likely to draw ambitious, dedicated faculty members to Harvard. In the long run, a film Ph.D. program will strengthen VES at large...
...Harvard, by contrast, the ratio between introductory-level and upper-level students is roughly 2 to 1, Cortese said...