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...here to help. Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96, the course head of the wildly-popular Psychology 1504: “Positive Psychology,” is one of the highest rated professors at Harvard with a whopping Q Guide score of 4.8. Is it the light workload or their interest in the material that makes students so happy with Professor Ben-Shahar? FM sat down with guru of glee to discover more about his course, happiness, and how to handle a lonely Valentine’s Day.1.FM: What do you enjoy most about your class...
...that most desirable of Harvard traits. The thousands of pages to be read or scores of problem sets to be completed are cudgels for asserting our masochistic superiority over our peers.Why is it, then, that we’re so excited about getting our courses listed for us by workload and difficulty? Perhaps it’s because we’ve ceased to think about courses as pursuits and given over entirely to thinking of them as obligations. A favorite word to look for in the Q is ‘painless’, as if the predominant emotion...
...When McDonald arrived on campus, she faced the same challenges as any sophomore transfer at Harvard—getting credit for last year’s classes, living with strangers, and managing the academic workload, to name a few. But McDonald adjusted quickly, thanks in part to the support of her new teammates, who welcomed her with open arms...
...guide reveals the course to be what is usually termed a “blow-off” elective class. Fewer than a quarter of the students were taking the course as part of their concentration requirements and the rest might have been attracted by its far-below-average workload and difficulty ratings...
...Government Reform. During the Bush Administration's first six years, the Republican Congress provided little oversight and less reform. Meanwhile, federal spending on private contractors nearly doubled, with military contractors being the biggest winners. TheU.S. now has more private contractors than troops in Iraq. Blackwater's federal workload has grown from $204,000 to nearly $600 million since 2000. You could call it Halliburton with guns, except Halliburton has some guns...