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Hanson also praised Marquand's deep commitment to Dudley House. Formerly a resource for transfer and off-campus students, Dudley was recently converted to a graduate student center. "For many undergraduates, Dudley House was John Marquand," Hanson said...
...Israelis are expected to concentrate on the big picture instead of trying to settle one issue at a time before moving to the next. They could draft an agreement in principle on the transfer of power to an interim government in the territories, then let working groups spell out the specifics. Palestinian negotiators would like this approach, and anticipate that Rabin's basic proposal for autonomy will be, in spokeswoman Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi's words, "much more comprehensive and serious" than Shamir's. But they are looking first for some tangible gestures to set the right tone: a complete brake...
...tread lightly. Decide quickly, but not rashly. You willmiss your friends. You will feel left out of first-year memories at your new school. You may even want to re-transfer to Harvard; one woman I met returned to MIT to study architecture, and one guy went back to Georgetown for a week in a fit of academic and social malaise...
Sophomore year, 1990: A bewildered transfer student, having survived the orientation week "death march" to the Radcliffe Quad for the frozen-pizza picnic, stumbles into Memorial Church for some soothing organ music before going off to the first of five incomprehensible science courses...
Given no adviser, I ended up in a physics course for which I had no background and found out my mistake too late to drop the class. Worse still, I had proudly insisted on taking five classes because the administrator in charge of transfer students had contemptuously told me that no transfer student was smart enough to do this. Yep, I was sunk...