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<blockquote> <p>Are IM teams easy to get into?<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>Yes, especially if you have a little talent. Rather than cutting people because they've got too many, teams are often more worried about having enough players show up to avoid a forfeit</p>
<p>Awesome, I'll be trying for that then</p>
<p>By the way, not that I'm thinking of playing any sports for the actual university but if you do, who coaches you? Do they get various professors around the school to do it (like my school - teachers have to be both smart and be able to coach a team) or do they hire in coaches specifically for that job? Just out of curiosity.</p>
<p>And can you play tennis all year round or just in the summer?</p>
<p>Also is squash easy to get into IM team or is it more competitive than soccer?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>At most colleges the coaches, for the major sports at least, are specifically hired for the job. Only at very small or very poor schools would a professor double as football or basketball coach.</p>
<p>Tennis can be played outdoors year round in warm weather places like southern California or Florida, but in Boston you need indoor courts for winter play.</p>
<p>Squash is pretty obscure in the US and therefore is less competitive than soccer. In fact, you need to check with any given school to be sure they even have squash as an IM sport.</p>
<p>For more information on athletics at Harvard see the website below:</p>
<p>Are there film societies at Harvard that are (1) relatively dependable and enduring, (2) have fairly frequent showings, and (3) offer interesting fare for college students (not just the mass-market products already available in commercial theaters)? Something like DOC films at Chicago, or the Yale Film Society at Yale.</p>
<p>Frosh IMs: <a href="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Efroshims/%5B/url%5D">http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~froshims/</a> (there are no cuts! all are welcome to play).
General Recreation info: <a href="http://hcs.harvard.edu/%7Erecsport/%5B/url%5D">http://hcs.harvard.edu/~recsport/</a></p>
<p>Re: Filesharing. I don't know if I was clear. Harvard in no way restricts file sharing. HOWEVER, Harvard cooperates fully when RIAA/MPAA/etc file complaints about copyright violations. See examples of Harvard students getting targeted here: <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/archives.aspx?SearchTerms=riaa&SortField=0&PageSize=10&News=1&Opinion=2&Sports=3&Magazine=5&Arts=4%5B/url%5D">http://www.thecrimson.com/archives.aspx?SearchTerms=riaa&SortField=0&PageSize=10&News=1&Opinion=2&Sports=3&Magazine=5&Arts=4</a>
Duality, if you want to use some sort of filesharing app that is only accessible from within Harvard's network, it might not be that risky. It might not be that helpful though, since ourTunes already allows downloading from shared iTunes libraries.</p>
<p>Film: check out the Harvard Film Archive <a href="http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org/</a></p>
<p>Thanks re: Film Societies. Looks good.</p>
<p>This is a question for freshman (sorry for polluting your guy's thread :) ) ok:
I'm sure most of you have read that 40% minority thread that Ukraine started ... or ANY thread concerning AA etc. NO THIS IS NOT ANOTHER DISCUSSION: my question is, how do peaople for and against but especially against AA or minorities ACT at Harvard. I mean does one feel like the profs and students look down on one ... do people come up to you and say something lke "You're black/hispanic/n.american .. you don't deserve to be here if your SAT score was less than xyz?" or what?</p>
<p>No. Harvard actually kept records of stats of African Americans, Hispanics and Asians (although Asians don't count in AA, they are still a minority in the country). They found that the stats of Blacks and Hispanics are very much the same as their White classmates. Interesting, huh?</p>
<p>thefootscrubber: I've heard a little bit of the talk you mention, but with respect to athletes, not minorities.</p>
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No. Harvard actually kept records of stats of African Americans, Hispanics and Asians (although Asians don't count in AA, they are still a minority in the country). They found that the stats of Blacks and Hispanics are very much the same as their White classmates. Interesting, huh?
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<p>Do you mean grades at Harvard, or the "stats" that got them in? The latter is certainly lower, and although the former is probably not so varied among ethnic groups, I find it hard to believe that there is no difference, since there is such a large and well-publicized difference in graduation rates.</p>
<p>thefootscrubber, if any prof or student said that, it would be (rightly) considered outrageously rude and inappropriate. Harvard is a collection of human beings, and human beings are going to bring their prejudices with them to campus, so I can't tell you that no immature student has ever made that kind of comment to a classmate. I CAN tell you that the vast majority of Harvard students understand that it is not their business to sit in judgment of their classmates' qualifications. At any rate, the slate is wiped clean when you enter the Yard; people will care about what you accomplish AT Harvard, not what you did to get there.</p>
<p>Plus, who measures accomplishment by SAT scores, of all things?</p>
<p>Psh, everyone knows they correlate with your freshman grades!</p>
<p>Er that is, they used to, before they decided to just make them random so that they wouldn't measure anything. ;)</p>
<p>I think the psychology tests used by the military should be administered in the stead of the SATs.</p>
<p>Sample question, "You see a submarine in the Sahara desert. What do you do?"</p>
<p>Stop taking shrooms?</p>
<p>I'm sorry, the correct answer is, you throw snowballs at it. Unfortunately, you have failed the test. No college for you!</p>
<p>Wait... I thought we were talking about the Air Force, not the Marines! Gimme another chance!</p>
<p>"do people come up to you and say something lke "You're black/hispanic/n.american .. you don't deserve to be here if your SAT score was less than xyz?" or what?"</p>
<p>I've heard of instances of this happening at schools like... Georgetown, but at the vast majority of top ranked schools, students embrace the diversity of their campus and student body and value what everyone can add to the community.</p>
<p>I've heard similar stories from Bob Jones University. In all seriousness, though, I think BJ U should really step in to prevent these incidents, since they are the only thing holding BJ U back in its fierce competition for common admits with Harvard and Stanford.</p>