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Students can fulfill QRR, instituted in 1980, by passing both the computer exam and a data analysis test, or by passing Quantitative Reasoning A (QRA). A total of 206 freshmen are enrolled in QRA or one of the introductory computer courses--"Automatic Computing," Applied Sciences 10, and Applied Sciences 11. "Computers, Algorithms, and Programs"--from which a passing grade can be substituted for the computer test...
According to academic rules, students who do not fulfill QRR by the end fo freshman year will face action from the Administrative Board and must "enroll in an appropriate credit course" (QRA) in order to register for the second year...
Everyone asks Michael Fridkin '81, who teaches QRA, the same two questions about the job. To the first--"Isn't it weird teaching people your age?"--he says the problem disappeared after a few lectures: "Pretty soon I fit into my role as someone who knows something they want to learn." The second--"Don't you think it's terrible that we pay Harvard so much tuition just to be taught by other students?"--worried him more, but he reasons, "It would be nice if professors taught everything, but a professor would be horribly bored teaching QRA...