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...four of Bendorf’s years at Harvard have been centered on honing her craft. “Freshman fall I discovered that I didn’t want to be a math major,” says Bendorf, who proceeded to create a special concentration: Dramatic Literature and Practice. She describes the concentration as over 50 percent English Literature, with supplementary courses in acting, stage design, dramaturgy, and other performance-based classes. She even enrolled in a one-on-one tutorial about Stephen Sondheim with her advisor, Professor Robert Scanlan. “What other Dramatic Arts courses...
Apart from his extracurricular involvement with classical music on campus, Lim is also a joint math-music concentrator. He says he wrote his thesis solely for the music department and credits his classes with having contributed to his musical development...
...When I first came to Harvard I thought I would major in neurobiology, but, then I ended up majoring in music and math. I’ve realized that music will always be a part of me,” he says. “It’s not a coincidence...
...went to a magnet school back home in Germany for math, science, and technology,” he said. “My schedule there involved at least 42 hours of classes a week and school was one hour and a half away so I had to get up at 4:30 in the morning...and I wouldn’t get back home until around 10 at night. So I find myself having a lot more time and more sleep [in college...
...unfortunate that students have to worry about communication barriers when they are already struggling to learn and understand the course material. This problem has become a growing issue at Harvard and seems to especially affect students taking courses in math and the sciences, where classes are often large and English is not necessarily internal to the subject matter. In an attempt to remedy this problem, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning launched a pilot class in which TFs who are not native English speakers could learn skills to break the cultural and communication barriers in the classroom...