Word: work-load
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Writing a thesis counts as taking a course each semester. During the fall, this will translate into your feeling as if you have an exceptionally light work-load, because you will be accumulating research slowly and lazily. But during the spring, when you actually have to write dozens of pages, you will feel as though you are taking several extra classes...
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When I was a first-year I heard about all these courses that were supposedly "guts," such as "Heroes for Zeroes" and "Jesus and the Easy Life." Well, I soon discovered I could not find a class that had a low work-load and an easy grading scale. The moral of this story is that you can avoid work in a class at Harvard, but its virtually impossible to have a work-gut be an easy grade too. (If you find one let me know.) It seems Harvard has been trying to remove the really easy courses, and others, like...
...added emphasis on education and social programs will prevent decent people from taking desperate measures. Increased funds will enable law enforcement agencies to weed out the bad cops without decimating their departments, as well as relieve the stress and work-load of officers on the brink of burnout...
Julia Brown, one of the newly selected fellows and assistant professor of English at Boston University, said yesterday she was looking forward to continuing her research on the Bronte sisters at Harvard. Her current three-course work-load at B.U. allows her little time to pursue her own academic interests, she added...