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...easy to become enamored of coursework in senior spring, when extracurriculars have ended and the weeks stretch out as long blocks of free time. But, as easy as it is to become distracted by Harvard's myriad extracurricular offerings, the fruits of knowledge are there for the taking. It is our responsibility to seize them so that, as Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28 wrote of his undergraduate years here, "each day [will be] filled with...fresh ideas and excited inspiration to read and go on learning...
Probation is a real punishment. According to page 16 of the 1996-97 Administrative Board's user guide for students, "A student on probation must pay special attention to his or her conduct and coursework, since the Board will act more severely (require to withdraw) on further infractions or failures." This indicates that if I continue to freely write "Prank Files," I will be kicked out of Harvard. The Ad Board sends a letter home to your family saying that it voted to place you on disciplinary probation. Moreover, probation goes on your permanent academic record. Any time a future...
...concentration has enormous breadth, encompassing coursework in biology, chemistry, earth and planetary science (EPS), government, economics and mathematics...
...Cambridge, where he will study "education from a psychological and philosophic perspective." Afterwards, he plans to attend graduate school in an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program that will allow him to explore his interest in the synergistic relationship among these three fields--perhaps Harvard's Organizational Behavior program, which includes coursework in the psychology or sociology departments and at Harvard Business School, and which offers an "ethics and the professions" program that would allow Ben-Shachar to continue philosophizing...
Very little of the coursework we have studied here will make a direct contribution to our chosen professions, and very little will substantially increase our material worth. Yet our essential humanity depends upon our regarding ourselves as something other than productive machines, a luxury the marketplace does not afford...