Word: problem
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...abroad advisor with the Office of Career Services (OCS) in the 1990s and returned this February as director of the OIP.Upon their return to campus this fall, many seniors who went abroad their junior year faced some unpleasant surprises. Most of these issues concerned the transfer of credits, a problem created by the lack of communication between the different offices involved.Transcripts from study abroad are processed at the OIP and then sent to the Registrar’s office, where they officially become part of a student’s record. This back-and-forth means students have to deal...
...their end. Like most Harvard conversations, the game focused extensively on masturbation and menstruation. A note to prospective traditional Jewish married couples: physical distance is required during that monthly period of impurity. Ignoring this rule can lead to stained sheets, as well as reputations. Despite impending midterms and problem sets, the game’s contenders participated earnestly and with enthusiasm. “It’s not horrible if there’s fun and candy involved,” reasons Linden. That’s what she said...
...Education Department’s regulation because it is weaker and pushed for the federal supremacy clause so that they could avoid Cuomo’s code while making it seem like they were proactively reforming themselves.The discrepancy in federal and state regulation would not be such a problem if there was not a strong possibility that student lenders would actively seek loopholes and adhere to the lowest standards of the law. As corporations serving financially inexperienced students and non-profit universities, one might assume that lenders are altruistic to some extent—or at least that universities would...
...Popular Harvard wisdom holds that we can either be part of the solution to injustices in the world or part of the problem, depending on the jobs we choose. However, the question of which occupations belong in which category is often oversimplified into a single Robert Frost-style fork in the road. We can go the well-worn corporate route, pursuing careers in finance or consulting and working 100 hours a week to afford apartments in Manhattan that, for new hires, are little more than crash pads between marathon workdays. The other option, equally dismal, is to devote oneself purely...
...Fang, at first it seems his social milieu hasn’t been greatly affected by money; “I don’t think it’s been a problem. We all sort of keep everyone’s situation in mind. I think people come from families who are pretty well off, so people doing jobs that aren’t as lucrative get a little support from their families. There is one person I know who’s not doing finance,” he says, of a friend...