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...which classes are interesting, which ones are insanely difficult, which ones are fun, which ones suck, which ones are guts and (maybe this is just me) which ones have hot TFs. After classes are chosen there is a lot of add/dropping and figuring out how to effectively petition CS 50 as a Folklore and Myth elective...
...what. Memo to the Boston Globe and CNN, and every other source in which I’ve seen this statistic quoted: If 50 percent of Harvard grades are As, 50 percent of grades are not As. Harvard students are regularly getting Bs. And, dare I say it, Cs. Overall student averages are still safely in the B-plus range. The grade gods can breath a sigh of relief, because given the context, there is nothing in these statistics worthy of press, let alone of alarm...
Grades have risen almost every year since the beginning of the 20th century. But this epidemic has gained more attention as grade inflation intensified during the 1990s to the point that Cs have become virtually nonexistent. Today, only 6 percent of grades are below a B-minus, while almost 50 percent are As or A-minuses...
...humming eggs at other Harvard students at The Game (I’m looking at you, varsity baseball), remember why you are here. Yes, yes, you have a wicked slider. But you also should be engaging your fellow students and sprinkling your personality among the masses of downtrodden CS concentrators. And when you leave, follow your statistical destiny into financial services, make a lot of money and give some of it back to Harvard, where it will be distributed to the rest of us, the pigeon-chested, sunlight-averse hypochondriac Crimson columnists...
...Here are a few I am aware of, and spark my interest: 1) Mesoscopic physics: The interaction of matter right between the quantum level and the classical level. 2) Quantum computing: Using the quantum world to perform what seems like black magic inside of computers. 3) Genetic algorithms: Merging CS with evolutionary biology to evolve efficient programs, getting useful algorithms without actually having to think about their design. 4) Bioinformatics: A melange of mathematics, CS, biology and accounting. 5) Rational drug design: Coupling molecular dynamics modeling with physics and chemistry to intelligently design useful compounds. 6) Rational choice theory...