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...particularly important that we consider what January means at Harvard, and how that value can be maintained for the benefit of students and professors. January is a time of year when, after break, we can enjoy a more leisurely reading and exam period than other schools get. Between Winter break and reading week, we enjoy plenty of time to prepare for exams and papers without having to dive into that work directly at the close of term, as happens in the Spring. However, the latest proposal to come from the Curricular Review Committee would change our January dramatically, changing...
...schedule without forfeiting the late start, long reading period and intercession break that Harvard students currently enjoy. Shifting the fall semester earlier to allow for the J-Term would likely require the College’s year to start at least two weeks earlier. Even a longer winter break after finals, as tempting as it sounds, would mean sacrificing weeks of late summer and would require a shortened winter reading period—too hefty a price...
...even if the calendar were rearranged to allow for finals before winter break in an effort to simplify student life, as now seems likely, a J-Term would only counteract any benefit by heaping on the additional stress—for both students and instructors—of planning for and taking additional classes. For most students, managing eight classes is hard enough; adding a ninth class in a 4-1-4 schedule would be too much. If the J-Term were structured so as to allow for the opportunity to do research or to study abroad, it would provide...
...long winter break wouldn’t cost a penny either, whereas another term might. The Independent Activities Period (IAP), Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s equivalent of the J-Term, is provided as an optional academic opportunity and a mandatory tuition cost covered by financial aid. With Harvard students’ tuition bills already among the highest in the country, an extra term like the IAP would drive costs even higher...
...said that the city had done a poor job of publicizing the primary, and that he himself only found out about the event from his mom over winter break...