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...Both inside and outside the University, people will tend to react to you differently if they know you’re a professor and not a post-doctoral fellow in some purgatorial half-station between student and professor,” de la Durantaye said...
...international students praised the wealth of academic choice available at Harvard, while most of their American peers tend to grouse about the limits of the Core. Perhaps this helps to explain their unusually high satisfaction rate with their undergraduate experience. There is, though, another possible explanation for their contentment: grinding...
...Harvard, a candidate has to have attained a sufficient educational level in high school to convince Byerly Hall that he can excel in such a high-powered academic environment. This stiff requirement generally limits applicants to students at a nation’s top handful of high schools, which tend to be comprised largely of comparatively wealthy students who are more likely to have visited America. “This is why a lot of the time, everyone from a certain country will come from the same school,” says Abida...
While Harvard students tend to steer clear of overtly racist remarks, it is not uncommon to hear jokes rich in perpetration of Asian-American stereotypes. These usually revolve around the notion that Asian students are bookish and nerdy, to the extent that they don’t enjoy or understand non-academic activities, especially sports. I should know these jokes, because I am definitely guilty of making them, and so are Asian students themselves...
...shared, but the university purchased it for the varsity women's use and asked the men to move. The male rowers have protested, and the matter is still being resolved. In the meantime, the men have been cordial. "Some people say we're suffering from reverse discrimination, and I tend to agree," says Derek Dilaj, a junior member of the crew team. "At the beginning, there was some friction and resentment, but it's not the girls' fault. They didn't make the decision...