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Death to (Bad) Sections

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By Uy Pham, Adnan Bin Alamgir
| The Harvard Crimson Verified
If you’re having trouble sleeping, try attending a Harvard section. This near-ubiquitous course component is so egregiously slow and perfunctory it could serve as a callous lullaby. Intimate and discourseful engagements are hard to come by in lectures — this is an unfortunate byproduct of the need to present information to a large audience. Sections are meant to initiate that exact engagement, through close interaction with both the teaching team and one’s fellow classmates.
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Learn Harvard’s Past To Know Its Present

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By Pavan V. Thakkar, Adnan Bin Alamgir
| The Harvard Crimson Verified
Have you ever wondered why anyone chose to design the paths crisscrossing Harvard Yard so patternlessly? They were never designed — or at least not by architects. They were made by Harvard students. The paths in Harvard Yard are “desire paths” — paths shaped by whatever routes people chose to walk on, and later paved into walkways. When each new class pours into the yard, they unknowingly walk the same paths that have been traced by students for almost 400 years.
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Harvard Clubs Are a Wasted Opportunity

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By Julian J. Giordano, Adnan Bin Alamgir
| The Harvard Crimson Verified
Some would say Harvard students optimize too much. I would say they’re optimizing incorrectly. Take what sounds like a familiar description of a club meeting at Harvard: sitting around in a circle with your laptop open, listening to a peer giving a surface-level lecture, spending hours on “workshops” teaching correct presentation formatting. It doesn’t even need to be a pre-professional organization — the mold stays the same.
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