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...going to be one of those 40-year-old guys who’s reliving their youth.”On the academic side, Cheek is not worried about going back to school. He understands Byerly Hall’s concerns about how he would handle the workload, but he also insists that he has the inner drive and desire to succeed at any level.“I wouldn’t have applied if I couldn’t handle the workload,” Cheek says. “Even with speedskating, I was never the most...
...formal academic advisors. Instead, the College should establish a new peer advising program alongside a better funded and better managed Prefect Program. Freshmen would benefit invaluably from the kind of honest and practical advice upperclassmen can provide. Peer advisors could tell freshmen which Core has a lighter workload and which professor just reads from a script in lecture. Moreover, first-year students should be assigned an advisor in a broad field like social sciences, sciences, or humanities. When they enter the College, freshmen would indicate which general area they are interested in so that they would be assigned an upperclass...
...another for faculty stars, whom they lure less with money and perquisites than with freedom to conduct research, which usually means light teaching loads and lots of graduate students to do scut work. Summers, scion of a family in the academic discipline with the highest pay and lowest workload of them all--economics--grew up and succeeded spectacularly in this culture. Harvard on his watch enthusiastically raided other universities for top talent. Its professors are among the highest paid in American academe; they teach only 28 weeks a year...
Even Ben-Shahar’s biggest fans agree that the workload for the class is nowhere near as intensive as it is in most Harvard courses. M. Alice Johnson ’06, for example, “liked that Professor Ben-Shahar admitted we wouldn’t be learning a lot of material.” But despite the light workload, Johnson continues, 1504 deserves to be taken seriously. “I’ve heard a few people say they didn’t take the class because it was too fluffy...
...Harvard Square with ads. Recently, Cambridge’s own Toscanini’s blanketed the Holyoke Center with countless advertisements, not unlike larger retailers in the Square such as Adidas and Starbucks. The coffee shop’s ads targeted Harvard students by referring to the reading period workload. One such ad read, “During Reading Period drink mild George Howell coffee for better grades.” The end of the ad suggested caffeine consumption improves studying. “It was either this advertisement or a $2 hot chocolate sale,” says seven...