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...enchanting as the university’s ancient spires may seem, Oxford’s outdated academic system is far less charming. The university’s trimester system means students are out of school more than in. In contrast to Harvard professors’ regular office hours, Oxford advisors spend more time avoiding emails than supervising students. Here, where D.Phil. students struggle to have supervisors read their dissertations before submission, poor supervision is the rule, not the exception...
...their local pub in Cambridge, England, and popped the question: Would she go with him? It took a few pints, but she said yes. "What's great about Virgin is it's not the classic astronaut in a space suit. The point is to make it simple so regular people can go into space," says Christine. "I want to look at the stars. I don't want to study astrophysics...
...Latham, who has collected more than 1,200 bottles, has organized semi-regular weekly tastings for over two decades. “I wanted to establish a non-confrontational forum at which everybody was at the same level, an even playing field,” he says...
...Overwhelmed” Chief of Mental Health Richard D. Kadison of Harvard University Health Services (UHS) cites reports in a 2004 book titled that less than 11% of college students nation-wide were getting “a good night’s sleep” on a regular basis. Harvard, in particular, fosters an exceptionally insidious anti-sleep culture that compounds the conventional collegiate obstacles to sleep with demands arising from its ultra-competitive environment. This culture—or our sleep patterns—cannot be changed by a few well-meaning seminars and pamphlets. The problem...
...know the facts. Sufficient, regular sleep is a vital part of life. Chronic sleep deprivation can never be a means to our ends. Well-rested, we might even be able rejuvenate much of the Harvard experience and our lives. Lectures would feel more stimulating, our papers would be more refined, and our conversations with friends would better remembered. We would look, feel, and act better in every sense of the word. And all we have to do is to dream it, eight hours a night. Paul G. Nauert ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies...