Word: courseload
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...also worth questioning the reason why so many students feel compelled to use neuroenhancing drugs. At Harvard, there is pressure to take a rigorous courseload whose time constraints are then compounded by extracurricular activities, jobs, social obligations, and more. That so many students at Harvard—and at other universities—feel the need to use study drugs to help fit everything into their day is quite telling. Perhaps students should not take on so many obligations if doing so means that they must supplement their natural abilities with drugs...
...peers in other countries. But the opposite is true. Kids today are working harder than Baby Boomers did when they were your age. More go to college and more are working-and an amazing number of you are doing both, simultaneously working nearly full-time while carrying a full courseload at college...
...much.Ryan J. “Trini” Abraham ’06 saw his last semester at Harvard as a chance to make strides in a field he’d only dabbled in before now. He has added the Winthrop House screenwriting seminar to his five-class courseload.“I never intended it to be my number one focus,” he says, “but I’ve always had a growing passion for it.”Abraham, who plans to become a sports psychologist upon graduation, sees the seminar...
...years, a small handful of students have earned law degrees and doctorates from Harvard, but without any formal arrangement or a reduction in total courseload...
After completing an accelerated courseload, Dawson had graduated high school a semester early and matriculated in the spring, providing him with a much-needed opportunity to cultivate poise reflecting his talent...