Word: midterm
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...first Harvard midterm, in Literature and Arts B-21, “Images of Alexander the Great,” and the due date of my first Harvard paper, for Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice,” fell on the same day. I had spent the bulk of the weekend hanging out late with new first-year friends, and I had left the academics for Sunday night. When at 4 a.m., after eight hours of paper writing, my head finally hit the pillow, I had a whole schedule for Monday morning planned out in my mind...
Unfortunately, I woke up at 1:02 p.m.—I had slept through my entire first midterm at Harvard. Initially, I blamed everything from my new alarm clock to my roommate to my course selection—how could I have thought I could handle Justice and Alexander in the same semester? Finally I blamed myself. I couldn’t expect to leave both assignments to the last minute and still get them done...
...went public about the 9/11 clues that had fallen through the cracks--he went on the air in a national address and insisted that a new Homeland Security Department was needed. And in the months that followed, he even helped Republicans ride the issue to victory in the 2002 midterm elections...
...obtained the title “Head TF” While the professor delivers fabulous lectures twice a week, it’s clear he has no clue what’s going on with course requirements, and the Head TF’s paper topics, e-mails and midterm exam hints bear little relation to anything we’ve been taught by that guy with tenure whose name appears in the course catalog listing...
...probably the easiest in the college. Weekly reading averages a couple dozen pages. Students are required to write a 150-word paragraph about what they thought (and, potently, felt) of each celebrity lecturer that comes to speak to Religion 1529. It doesn’t have a midterm; its final is take-home. Indeed, Palmer himself admitted of his offering last spring, “some students take the class because it’s easy.” Against this j’accuse of academic ease, what one would think would be a grave charge at Harvard...