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Before I wrote the second draft of this parting shot, my best friend and I sat down on our common-room floor and had another one of our by-now ritual conversations. It didn’t involve anthropologists. Instead, we talked about the realizations we had come to at Harvard—mostly, that we had grown up and grown to appreciate people and ideas more. That we had changed much since freshman year and that we are, thanks to this place, ready to move on from Harvard but not from the people we talked with here...
Schools built by small, grass-roots NGOs operate on the inverse theory of change, striving to revolutionize the local status quo rather than affect national or global change. Usually rural instead of urban and almost always consistent with government standards, schools built by organizations like Achieve-in-Africa, BuildAfrica, Ripple Africa, and Schools-for-Africa are intensely local, both in terms of curriculum and culture. Such schools do not guarantee a college education; they simply equip girls to maximize their impact in their hometowns by holding jobs outside the home and ensuring the education of the next generation of girls...
...integral part of a liberal-arts curriculum, but the fundamental principles of the liberal-arts approach are fully convergent with the interdisciplinary teaching of science. It is time we stopped viewing science as simply one of several specialized plug-ins that go into a liberal-arts curriculum and focused instead on the benefits of integrative thinking both within the natural sciences and between the other fields represented at Harvard. It is time we liberated science within the liberal arts...
...organize all the student group events, all the departmental events, all the administrative events so that there's one online website where you go, you find out where the parties are that student groups are throwing, you find out the departmental info sessions that are happening, etc. so that instead of going to 5,000 different places, it's all in one centralized location...
...Verdict: We like that with this feature, you can easily act like you're taking notes on your computer when you're actually reading and sending texts. Also, if you don't have unlimited texting, you can save money by using Google Voice instead, as you can text directly from your Google account...