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...lucky enough to be assigned to a knowledgeable and interested professor or a proctor who happens to be a Harvard College graduate, first-years are stuck with advisers—from professional school administrators to first-year graduate student proctors—who know little about the Harvard system. Freshmen quickly learn that the best academic advice comes not from professors or proctors, but upperclassmen who are far more in touch with their concerns. Though Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique Rinere’s invention of academic Peer Advising Fellows is a step in the right direction, it must...
Assigning House tutors merely extends the worst problem with freshmen advising—advisers don’t know the specifics of concentrations outside their department. This will create a system where students who are unfortunate enough to get a mediocre advisor will fall through the cracks. House tutors will be necessary for less important logistical matters—signing study cards and checking core requirements—but they will not solve the problem of providing quality advising...
...Norberg did, in fact, feel somewhat like a first grader. Having been homeschooled from second grade until college, that kindergarten diploma was the last one he had ever received. Weeks later, as Weld 52 settled in to freshman year, Norberg would find the transition difficult. Like his fellow freshmen, he struggled to adjust to college life. However, unlike his peers, he had never experienced the years of transition from elementary to middle to high school. For them, this year merely represented a new combination of buildings, teachers and students. But for Norberg it had always been one teacher, one home...
...deserve to be here. The topic of “merit”—however that amorphous term can be simplified—is a fruitless conversation, and it distracts from the more important issues on which we all should focus. I always say that Harvard freshmen have more to teach us than upperclassmen have to teach them: There’s rarely a freshman I talk to that’s comfortable with their position in their respective Harvard classes—so many believe they don’t deserve it. When is it that...
...entrenched annual ritual of parading around in suits at all hours of the day and early morning. Final clubs’ punch season is over and most Wall Street-bound seniors already have their jobs, but eRecruiting is only just rolling to a close. For any blissfully ignorant freshmen or free spirited upperclassmen, eRecruiting is the online application system that the Office of Career Services (OCS) uses to match students up with internships in the business and finance worlds. The word “eRecruiting,” however, has become synonymous with the entire process, culminating in several rounds...