<p>Sometimes I laugh at how ignorant people are. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>And as far as the social life at Harvard, not all of the learning happens in the classroom. By interacting with peers in more casual settings, students develop a skill set necessary to succeed in the working world (interpersonal skills)</p>