Just a short post today, dumping something that I found interesting out of my brain and into plaintext. Today, I had someone pull me aside and ask me if I was alright; several people had noticed that I was really worked up about something the other day, to the point
nb:The Q Guide is a Harvard-run course rating service. It has its roots in the student-run "Confi Guide", published by the Crimson as far back as 1925. The Confi Guide, however, was eclipsed by the Harvard-run CUE (Committee on Undergraduate Education) reports published from 1975 onwards. In
I'm planning to compose a much longer post on the recent announcement that the Harvard Q Guide will no longer report course difficulty ratings, but in the mean time, I've rounded up a few of the insightful writers I've found around the web, with
I've decided to move my blog from the Blogger platform to Ghost, hosted here, where I can control more of the fiddly bits. I've copied over all content from the old Blogspot site, but future posts will only be made here. Welcome, and cheers!
A year ago, the school (and the city) was just getting off lockdown after the manhunt for the marathon bombing suspect(s). And looking backward, there's a few things I remember quite clearly: * the spreadsheet of students offering couch space, spare beds, and sleeping bags to 'stranded&