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...crowded with other requirements. First of all, there is the much-maligned Expository Writing requirement. If all goes well under the present Curricular Review, Expos will be subjected to a number of intelligent changes, making it a more integrated part of the first-year academic experience and giving more weight to the role of “preceptors,” currently among the lowest-paid teachers at Harvard. Although Expos may not be a fun course, it is a crucial part of how freshman year equalizes students’ future opportunities, simply by helping all students develop a similar...
Focusing on a sample of 67 undergraduates, nutritional scientists at the New Jersey school found that three-quarters of the students gained weight in their first year. But the average weight-gain was seven pounds—less than half the much-feared 15, the researchers found. Students in the study consumed an extra 112 calories...
...that release, the study’s co-author, nutritional scientist Daniel J. Hoffman, warned that weight-gain could lead to diminished self-esteem, which in turn may harm academic performance...
...study suggested that college weight-gain does not affect all students equally. And a Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) spokeswoman, Jami Snyder, agreed with the Rutgers researchers’ finding...
Snyder said that freshman weight-gain “is an individual event, part of the transition from home-life to college. You may gain weight, you may lose sleep...