Word: upperclassmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Particularly impressive is Balmert’s year at Harvard: according to upperclassmen players, freshmen typically struggle in the spring season after taking so many months off in the winter...
...administration initiatives offer promising potential for peer learning and collaboration, both at the student and student group level. First off, the new peer advising fellowships, a dramatically restructured, advising-centric reincarnation of the Freshmen Prefect Program, will offer freshmen advice from upperclassmen who have recently navigated the first years of the Harvard undergraduate curriculum themselves...
...Facebook message conversations with one upperclassman. He warned me against having a thousand Facebook friends before even arriving at college and directed me to the Facebook group “Holy Shit, the Class of 2009 Should Perform a David Koresh-style Mass Suicide.” These upperclassmen were right, of course. Why did I need to have 300 cyber friends whom I had yet to meet? Really, I was sort of creepy. After that, I reformed. I trimmed down my Facebook friends list and dumped Facebook groups like “whoever said Harvard social life sucked forgot...
...throughout the year, any interaction you have with your friendly neighborhood proctor could end up in an evaluation at the admissions office, informing future admissions decisions. Recently, the admissions office was forced to admit, via a mistakenly sent email, that information collected about current freshman, and possibly upperclassmen, may be used to determine who was an “admissions mistake” and who was a treasured find. The email—accidentally sent by a proctor to a Crimson reporter—condemned two students as “so self-centered that they have trouble even imagining...
...hours each semester, that stipend translates into a very well paying campus job. Not only does this sweeten the deal for prospective Fellows, it also removes a barrier to entry that currently affects the Prefect Program. In paying fellows, the program makes participation a real possibility for qualified upperclassmen with financial aid commitments...