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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember when this came out last year.  Those poor, poor Harvard students:

Sophie Chumburidze ’29 said the report felt dismissive of students’ hard work and academic struggles.

“The whole entire day, I was crying,” she said. “I skipped classes on Monday, and I was just sobbing in bed because I felt like I try so hard in my classes, and my grades aren’t even the best.”

“It just felt soul-crushing,” she added. . . .

“It makes me rethink my decision to come to the school,” she said. “I killed myself all throughout high school to try and get into this school. I was looking forward to being fulfilled by my studies now, rather than being killed by them.”

Zahra Rohaninejad ’29 added that grading already felt harsh and raising standards further would only erode students’ ability to enjoy their classes.

“I can’t reach my maximum level of enjoyment just learning the material because I’m so anxious about the midterm, so anxious about the papers, and because I know it’s so harshly graded,” she said. “If that standard is raised even more, it’s unrealistic to assume that people will enjoy their classes.” . . .

Hudson C. McCarthy ’29, a member of the men’s lacrosse team, said the report ignored the realities faced by student-athletes.

“It’s doing students a disservice because it’s not really accounting for what we have to do on a day to day basis, and how many hours we’re putting into our team, our bodies, and then also school,” he said.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/notable-quotable-harvard-c4557cfe?st=W7PURW&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink[/quote]

Lol this is embarrassing.[/quote]

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