msmemory_archive: (wellesley lamp)
msmemory_archive ([personal profile] msmemory_archive) wrote2009-05-12 12:07 pm

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I hope the administrations of other fine and expensive institutions in this region also read this article in today's Globe:
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2009/05/12/the_harvard_disadvantage/
I never even considered frivolities like Junior Year Abroad. Not with parents who considered it a big issue when I asked for a new winter jacket during my freshman year.

[identity profile] digitalemur.livejournal.com 2009-05-12 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I went to college in this era too, plus with most of the science majors you couldn't go abroad and finish in time. And yet for years I felt I'd failed to do something important by not doing it! Go figure THAT out. I'm better now thanks.