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Although attendance at initial interest meetings saw a “dramatic increase” over the past two years, pre-med tutor Miller says medical school applications by seniors in Eliot House are running at an average pace. She notes that applications to medical school tend to vary little with the economy, given the numerous course requirements pre-meds must complete...
Similarly, for young scholars doing groundbreaking work in emerging fields, it can be difficult to earn tenure in institutions where more traditional fields tend to dominate...
Much of this impression is my own fault. There are almost a thousand varsity athletes on campus—maybe four of them are even acquaintances of mine (varsity athletes tend not to major in computer science). I covered hockey regularly for two years and, thanks to a Memento-like inability to remember faces, still cannot identify more than four or five players on the team...
...times like these, people get predictably touchy-feely. Whether evocative of bliss or misery, the word “Harvard” will probably carry a great deal of emotional baggage for you from this point on. Getting emotional is understandable. But people tend to get overly contemplative when they do so, and therein lies a danger. Anyone who has ever read a novel or watched a film—or at least those of us with even a shred of imagination—will spend at least a few moments casting himself as the protagonist...
...never have guessed he’d grow up to be a professional comedian,” says Therese A. Sorey, Ferrell’s sophomore English teacher. “He was very bright, very diligent, and a strong writer. I’ve noticed that funny people tend to be very smart. My honors classes get my jokes more then my other classes...