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06-11-2008, 03:42 PM
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#46 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: NY ---> Outer Haven, MA 2012
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Sometimes I laugh at how ignorant people are.
When undergraduates at Harvard complain about a lack of "undergraduate attention", they have a basis for their claims. Since graduate programs and research are so prevalent at Harvard, a lot of the big-name profs aren't available to help students, since frankly, they have much better things to do. It's not that people become lazy after they start attending Harvard, it is just impossible to interact with profs; TAs and even upperclassmen play a big part in an undergraduate's life.
| How am I the ignorant one when you're blowing everything out of proportion.... Quote: |
In other words, Harvard treated me like an adult instead of a high schooler, and that was fantastic for me.
| TYVM | 
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06-11-2008, 03:49 PM
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#47 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: near New York City
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| Third member of the class of '78. I was a VES major and had two full professors advising me on my senior thesis. (It was actually an architectural history thesis as opposed to a body of art unlike most VES theses.) I think it's still true that it is easier to have more meaningful interactions with faculty in the smaller departments. I was not a schmoozer and certainly never said a word to the famous professors whose classes I took, but that didn't stop me from enjoying their lectures. I had at least one prof. (actually one of the ones I did my thesis with) who insisted that every student come and discuss paper topics with him in one of his lecture courses. | |
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06-12-2008, 01:21 AM
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#48 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Cambridge, MA (but Columbus, OH originally)
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| Was College Confidential the big topic of discussion at the Class of 1978 reunion this year? | |
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06-12-2008, 09:13 AM
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#49 | | Junior Member
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| I'm guessing it will be. | |
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06-12-2008, 09:17 AM
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#50 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Kirkland House, Cambridge, MA
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| Reunions are over. They happen during graduation. | |
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06-12-2008, 11:05 AM
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#51 | | Junior Member
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| Then I missed it as usual. | |
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06-12-2008, 06:04 PM
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#52 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: near New York City
Posts: 4,190
| Actually they sometimes do some of the less big year reunions in the fall. Class of 78 has its reunion Oct. 10-12 this year. 25 and 50 always coincide with graduation. | |
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06-12-2008, 07:02 PM
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#53 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Kirkland House, Cambridge, MA
Posts: 415
| Alrighty then, my apologies for the misinformation. I know we had 5, 20, 25, and 50 so I figured we had the other ones too (I just thought I must have missed them with my own eyes). | |
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06-23-2008, 06:07 PM
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#54 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 145
| Well, I see my post #33 has been truncated so as to remove all the content from Sean Carroll's comments. And I can't link to them because they appear on his blog. Oh, well, I guess folks will just have to live without them. | |
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06-24-2008, 01:26 PM
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#55 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Competitive Central, MD --> Cooperative Central, Cambridge
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| The biology (particularly cell and molecular) curriculum over-caters to pre-meds. | |
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06-25-2008, 12:28 AM
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