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byrddogs
Joined: 19 Jun 2009
Location: Shanghai
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 Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 1:21 am Post subject: Being a Harvard student these days |
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http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/18/21957200-harvard-bomb-hoax-suspect-eldo-kim-released-on-bond?lite
The attorney says his client was “under a great deal of pressure”. Weren't they all under some amount of pressure? Other students weren't so desperate.
“The courseload was very reasonable,” said Chris O’Brien, a classmate of Kim in the same Politics of American Education course that reportedly prompted the threat.
“I’ve spoken to some of my classmates and everyone’s surprised that this exam would be the one that someone would resort to such desperation over,” O’Brien added. |
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jazzmaster
Joined: 30 Sep 2013
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"Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz said it’s “very hard” to fail an exam at the school. A dean recently revealed teachers are inflating grades — so much so that the median grade awarded to students is an A-minus."
It seems like higher education is becoming more and more of a joke each year. |
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