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Unconventional forms of assessment, though still uncommon, are being seen in other Harvard classes as well.
Do your summer plans involve an extended stay in beautiful Cambridge? Are you still working to find a roommate for that enviable summer pad? A new Web site is trying to solve this by hooking up students (for housing) at DeWolfe and other residences around Harvard.
On the Harvard College Undergraduate Research Association’s site, you can register and then either browse the ads put up by other students or post your own. HCURA developed the site two or three years ago because “a lot of people, especially those doing research...
The site concentrates on DeWolfe housing with separate categories for gender, but it also has a place to post ads to find roommates who want to live in other areas. It’s open to anyone, not just Harvard students or summer researchers, according to Suh.
“It does put pressure on them,” Muri admitted. “[But] most guys respond well to pressure. They enjoy the competition against the other schools, and in our league it’s very tight.”