<p>In 2004, schools where 5 or more students matriculated were Brown (6), Columbia (12), Cornell (7), Dartmouth (8), Georgetown (10), Harvard (13), Johns Hopkins (7), McGill (5), NYU (9), Northwestern (5), Princeton (13), Smith (5), Stanford (7), Trinity (Connecticut) (5), Tufts (6), Wellesley (6), Yale (8), and the Universities of Chicago (5), North Carolina at Chapel Hill (5), Pennsylvania (15), and Virginia (5).</p>
<p>joy, why did you decide not to go to Exeter?</p>
<p>... and where did you go?</p>
<p>let's keep bumping the exeter thread because exeter is so cool</p>
<p>All current exonians: How does the Harkness method work for math and science?</p>
<p>ESA- you can see my earlier post describing the way math is taught at Exeter, that's pretty much the way harkness is applied there.
In terms of science, I only know of Biology, Physics, and Astronomy (I never took chem at exeter, I was lazy lazy lazy).</p>
<p>The Harkness method has been slightly more difficult to apply to sciences becuse they can be so black and white. This is probably the area where teachers talk the most in class. A cell is going to do what it's going to do and that's kind of that. However I've found that teachers at Ex address this several ways:
-by adding more word type problems a la the math dept, and really having the students take the reins when it comes to going over hw/reading from the night before.
-by using tons lab time and experiments. Science classrooms are setup w. the Harkness table, plus large lab sections, each bench with a computer etc. Aside from tests days, I don't think I had a single science class where we did not leave the table and use the lab section. Often we design the experiments, discuss what we think will happen, etc. and then go back and do it.
-talking "big picture." A cell is going to do what it's going to do, but often after a teacher has explained that, we take a discussion in the direction of 'ok what does that mean in terms of infectious diseases, or reproduction, or evolution etc." Not all of my classes have gone like this, but when it does it's great. </p>
<p>Plus don't forget that each science discipline has it's own big open lab in the new s.c. (the phys lab is my fave-so many toys!) so we'll often interact with other classes for long term experiments.</p>
<p>Speaking as someone who tends to abhor science as a subject I must say I almost always looked foward to my sci classes at Exeter(fetal pig dissection notwithstanding-yuck).</p>
<p>Hope that helps!</p>
<p>Yeah, my brother had to dissect a dead pregnant mother pig, take out the fetuses and dissect those two. Kind of gross, yet interesting and exciting.</p>
<p>I disected a sand shark in 3rd grade... that was so great!</p>
<p>a frog, squid and a fish (yay the GATE program! ^.^ )...it was SO awesome...I'm waiting for the Cow's eye...lol..:)</p>
<p>When do you do a cow's eye?</p>
<p>I dissected...an anchovie. In addition to: preserved cow eyes and a squid. The preserved cow eye was hard to cut...</p>
<p>I geuss so I saw how hard people had to bite on Fear Factor to get the membrane juice out (sorry if I disgusted anyone :)).</p>
<p>I remember that episode!!! FF also had an episode where the contestants had to heat cow testicles; Now that's nasty!!!</p>
<p>Yeah, I wouldn't do any of that stuff just for $50,000! (There's Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, all you have to do is sit down and answer multiple choice question w/ help!!!). There's plenty else to chose from and get ___fold more money.</p>
<p>Poker is a good way to make if luck is on your side... there's partypoker.com and of course the game with your friends, although you probably won't be making $50,000 unless you go pro. Anyway, it's way better than having to eat that stuff.</p>
<p>I agree, I'd never eat bull balls.</p>
<p>OMG, I just noticed I said Cow balls, I'm dilerious! lol. I meant bull balls. Thans esa.</p>
<p>LOL...you're welcome.</p>
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<p>Bumping is fun!!!</p>