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...institutes. Developed across the school in the last 50 years, these hubs, many of them interdisciplinary, are composed of faculty members and affiliates with shared interests and the funds to act on them—distinct from degree-granting academic departments that focus on student instruction in the classroom...
Hammonds’ teaching background has also motivated her to push the College to reexamine its teaching style and incorporate “21st century” techniques and technologies into the classroom...
...have a lot of classrooms that are frankly 19th century classrooms—chairs are bolted down and professors stand in front of the classroom and lecture,” she says...
...mostly I enjoy having a wealth of academic opportunities. Not in the classroom, of course but in talking to my peers. I have a friend named Kyle who is literally a walking Oxford Classical Dictionary, which is wonderful, because I hate carrying my Oxford Classical Dictionary to Starbucks. "Critic and commentator Kenneth Dover was so impossibly prolific!" Kyle says, sometimes, before people seize him by the dust jacket and shut him with excessive force...
...elusive: the feeling of not being the smartest person in the room. Whenever I am not at Harvard, I make a point of surrounding myself with the cast of "Jersey Shore," so this is not nearly as pretentious as it sounds. But whether it’s in the classroom, listening to someone eminent and white-haired lecture about something, or in your dorm room, discovering all the things your friends know about everything from classic rock to actual rocks, the sensation of being with people who can teach you all kinds of things is absolutely delightful. Also, the large...