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Although most students tend to do well in Ec1010b (the key is to read the assigned chapters) the class’s requirements are nerve-wracking. The midterm is worth 30 percent of the grade and the final is worth a whopping 60 percent...
...taught by Sheila Jasanoff. However, while ESPP does not have many departmental courses, students in the concentration have found that courses such as EPS 7, “Introduction to Geological Science,” sand Economics 1661, “Environmental Economics,” tend to be tailored specifically for ESPP concentrators. Although the concentration boasts an impressive variety of faculty members on its degree-granting committee, the department’s inconvenient truth is that advising is negligible at best and that a significant effort has to be made to get attention from anyone in the department...
...Suleyman the Magnificent: Art, Architecture, and Ceremonial at the Ottoman Court.” The course name might be formidable, but the work isn’t; tests aren’t graded harshly and the workload is minor. Professor Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar’s lectures tend toward disorganization, with lots of confusing slides, which makes the class boring but pretty easy. Speaking of slides, there’s B-21, “The Images of Alexander the Great.” The course is a legendary gut, and requires little actual work except for some...
...Operating Base Maizan in southern Afghanistan's Zabul Province feels like the end of the world. It's a good three hours by Humvee from the regional base in Qalat - that's if there are no IEDs along the road. By helicopter it's only 20 minutes, but flights tend to come only once a week. When they do, it feels like Christmas - mail from home is the only thing that keeps the soldiers at Maizan going. Today's haul saw troops whooping over new Sony Playstations, games, Oreos, cigarettes, Cheese Whiz and even a flea collar for Beebe...
...income and minority students simply don't know early admissions are an option, and thus miss out on the progams' often higher acceptance rates. Schools in poor areas can't afford to keep college counselors on staff all summer to process applications. "I do think lower-income students tend to apply later in the process," says Liz Daniels, dean of admissions and financial aid at Emory & Henry. "I can see how it can possibly disadvantage them...