Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Crimson and blue
News flash: Harvard kids don't have as much fun at school as kids at other top schools.
This isn't really shocking. There's a tremendous amount of pressure, and a bit of isolation despite being in a city that should offer lots of social options. I'd be interested to see the whole report, and I wonder who the 4 schools that were below Harvard are.
I'd guess Cornell (suicide capital) may be there. Chill, you think your alma mater might make it?
An internal Harvard memo, obtained by the Globe, provides numerical data that appear to substantiate some long-held stereotypes of Harvard: that undergraduate students often feel neglected by professors, and that they don't have as much fun as peers on many other campuses.
The group of 31 colleges, known as the Consortium on Financing Higher Education, or COFHE, includes all eight Ivy League schools, other top research universities like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford, and small colleges like Amherst and Wellesley. ''Harvard students are less satisfied with their undergraduate educations than the students at almost all of the other COFHE schools
This isn't really shocking. There's a tremendous amount of pressure, and a bit of isolation despite being in a city that should offer lots of social options. I'd be interested to see the whole report, and I wonder who the 4 schools that were below Harvard are.
I'd guess Cornell (suicide capital) may be there. Chill, you think your alma mater might make it?
# posted by Darlucky @ 5:57 PM 
