Harvard Undergrad Discovers Grade Inflation, Nobody’s Impressed
Turns out all that tuition money Harvard kids shell out is for naught after all. Christian Flow, Harvard '10, recently wrote an article for Harvard Magazine on the university's apparent lackadaisical attitude at giving students an actual education. Based on a personal episode of academic buffoonery involving a flight back home to write a term paper in 24 hours, Flow highlights how professors at the number four douchiest college in America do everything but put their students in the time-out zone and put a hilariously inappropriate amount of effort in squeezing quality work out of their pupils.
In three years at college, I had never been slapped around like this. This was the kind of thing that happened in high school when you didn’t do your reading. Who knew that tenured professors had the time or the temperament for this species of intervention?
Expectedly, all the blame can be dumped on the Harvard Management Company. And as the college devises ways to prevent further whiny and self-entitled protests on student-life related budget cuts, it plans to reduce the number of teaching fellows hired this year, slash small seminars in favor of giant lectures, as well as phase out general examinations for certain honors concentrations.
After the jump, it turns out Ivy League professors don't actually give a shit how you do in their class. But various forms of B usually cut down on office hour interaction.
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